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Definition: Soweto |
SowetoNoun1. A large collection of African townships southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa; inhabited solely by Black Africans. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Soweto to Berkeley (1988) Six Days of Soweto (1978) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The name Soweto is an acronym for "South Western Townships" and does not mean anything besides this in any South African language.
Soweto came to the world's attention in 1976, when riots broke out over the government's decision to enforce education in Afrikaans rather than English. See History of South Africa.
A number of buildings were blown up in Soweto in November, 2002. The explosions are believed to be the work of the Boeremag, a right wing extremist group.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soweto."
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 | From Sharpeville to Soweto : without mass struggle there can be no revolution : without armed struggle there can be no victory!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Soweto ... South Africa ... : public meeting, St. George's school room. Sunday, June 26 ... Speakers: Dr. Franz Lee, Dr. Cheddi Jagan. Chairman: Evsi Kwayana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | June 26, South African freedom day : remember Soweto. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Business | Also, the tours into Soweto as well as the rich history in Zululand are good examples of cultural tourism. (references) | |
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| "Soweto" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.89% of the time. "Soweto" is used about 36 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 (singular) | 63.89% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 36.11% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Soweto": soweto-based. | |
Ending with "Soweto": Johannesburg-soweto. | |
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| 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 |
soweto | 51 |
soweto uprising | 10 |
africa south soweto | 10 |
riot soweto | 8 |
kinch soweto | 3 |
day soweto | 3 |
mp3 soweto | 3 |
1976 soweto uprising | 3 |
soweto tour | 3 |
massacre soweto | 2 |
soweto string quartet | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Soweto"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Zulu | eSoweto. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-o-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: oots, owes, owse, soot, stew, stow, swot, tews, toes, tows, twos, west, wets, woes, woos, wost, wots. | |
-3 letters: oes, oot, ose, owe, set, sew, sot, sow, tew, toe, too, tow, two, wet, woe, woo, wos, wot. | |
-4 letters: es, et, oe, os, ow, so, to, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-o-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twosome. | |
+2 letters: kotowers, outswore, towropes, twosomes, woodiest, wooliest, wooziest. | |
+3 letters: bentwoods, coleworts, flowstone, hollowest, hometowns, honeworts, kowtowers, latewoods, lousewort, lowermost, outpowers, outtowers, stonework, stonewort, teakwoods, townhomes, townhouse, waterloos, woodenest, woodnotes, woodsiest, woodstove, woolliest. | |
+4 letters: brownstone, downstroke, flowerpots, flowstones, ghostwrote, heartwoods, louseworts, moneyworts, outworkers, overthrows, powerboats, showboated, stoneworks, stoneworts, switcheroo, swoopstake, townhouses, townswomen, waterzoois, whitewoods, wirephotos, woodstoves. | |
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