McPherson

Definition: McPherson

McPherson

Noun

1. United States evangelist (born in Canada) noted for her extravagant religious services (1890-1944).

Date "McPherson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

Synonym: McPherson

Synonym: Aimee Semple McPherson (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: McPherson

English words defined with "McPherson": Aimee Semple McPherson. (references)

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Usage

Screenplays

You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward. (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

I was trying to walk in on Elle McPherson. (Just Shoot Me!; writing credit: David Renwick)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Great Minds of History: Roger Mudd Interviews: Stephen Ambrose, Gordon Wood, David McCullough, Richard White, James McPherson [ABRIDGED] (reference) Least of All Saints: The Story of Aimee Semple McPherson (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	U.S. Army Hospital, Fort McPherson, Ga. : Exterior view- Nurses Quarters.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Thomas McPherson Brown].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Aimee McPherson.Credit: Library of Congress.		Two German sailors, one wearing cap of Prinz Eitel Friedrich, war prisoners at Fort McPherson, Ga., building miniature boats.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Aliens standing in line during transfer from Fort McPherson to Fort Oglethorpe.Credit: Library of Congress.		Gettysburg, Pa. Bodies of Confederate soldiers, killed on July 1, collected near the McPherson woods.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Portrait of Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson, officer of the Federal Army.Credit: Library of Congress.		McPherson barn, Gettysburg, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Left to right: Michael W. Straus, Chief of War Production Drive Headquarters; Mrs. Marie McPherson, Chairman, Labor-Management Committee, Meissner Manufacturing Company, Mount Carmel Illinois.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Marie McPherson, Chairman, Labor-Management Committee, Meisnner Manufacturing Company, Mount Carmel, Illinois.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Saudi Arabia	U.S. manufacturers and suppliers of spare parts are expected to take advantage of those new opportunities, including side-protection bars, air bags, electronic fuel injection systems, electronic-no-point distributors, ABS braking system, front-wheel McPherson strut bar, DOHC engines, and sophisticated entertainment systems. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"McPherson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "McPherson" is used about 126 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	126	28,512

The following table summarizes the usage of "McPherson" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Mcpherson	Last name	13,000	895
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. McPherson, KS (city, FIPS 43950)
Location: 38.37192 N, 97.66186 W
Population (1990): 12422 (5118 housing units)
Area: 13.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expressions: McPherson

Expressions using "McPherson": aimee Semple McPherson ♦ McPherson County. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: McPherson

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mcpherson ks	156	ft mcpherson ga	13
mcpherson	124	hospital mcpherson	10
fort mcpherson	100	aimee mcpherson	10
mcpherson kansas	67	elle mcpherson pic	10
mcpherson sentinel	67	charles mcpherson	8
adrian mcpherson	63	elle mcpherson picture	8
aimee semple mcpherson	55	mcpherson sentinal	8
mcpherson college	54	mcpherson bow	8
patricia mcpherson	48	john mcpherson	8
ft mcpherson	41	kansas mcpherson newspaper	7
lisa mcpherson	26	barbara mcpherson	7
mcpherson racing	23	mcpherson real estate	7
james mcpherson	18	james m mcpherson	7
fort mcpherson ga	17	aimee mcpherson photo semple	6
fort mcpherson georgia	15	bruce mcpherson	6
mcpherson mimi video	14	mcpherson playhouse	6
mcpherson strut	14	mcpherson county kansas	6
guitar mcpherson	13	mcpherson model	6
mile mcpherson	13	paul mcpherson	6
mcpherson selma	13	scott mcpherson	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: McPherson

Misspellings
	"McPherson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mcphearson, Micheson. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: McPherson

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-m-n-o-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: chompers, corpsmen.
	-2 letters: chomper, chromes, crepons, phenoms, porches, shopmen.
	-3 letters: censor, chemos, chomps, chores, chosen, chrome, comers, copens, copers, corpse, cosher, crepon, crones, ephors, epochs, herons, homers, honers, hopers, mensch, mopers, morphs, mosher, nosher, ochers, ochres, person, phenom, phones, ponces, posher, proems, recons, schmoe, senhor, sermon, socmen.
	-4 letters: ceros, chemo, chomp, chops, chore, chose.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-m-n-o-p-r-s"
	+2 letters: comprehends, mesonephric, microphones.
	+3 letters: consumership, necrophilism.
	+4 letters: chemisorption, commandership, comprehension, comprehensive, consumerships, necrophilisms, nephrectomies.
	+5 letters: actinomorphies, chemisorptions, chromoproteins, cinematographs, commanderships, comprehensible, comprehensibly, comprehensions, encephalograms, magnetospheric, nephrectomizes, parenchymatous, pneumothoraces, rapprochements.
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