Caribou

Definition: Caribou

Caribou

Noun

1. Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America.

Date "caribou" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Caribou

Synonym: reindeer (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Animal	Fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Caribou

English words defined with "caribou": arctic moss ♦ barren ground caribou ♦ Carriboo, Cladonia rangiferina ♦ genus Rangifer, Greenland caribou ♦ Rangifer, Rangifer caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer, reindeer lichen, reindeer moss ♦ woodland caribou. (references)

Specialty definitions using "caribou": Caribou CodeWorks ♦ QTRADER. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Moose burger or caribou dog? (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) Okay Jack, you tell the Caribou whatever you want, but I'm gonna tell you something. (The Best of Times; writing credit: Ron Shelton)
Movie/TV Titles	Tuktu and the Caribou Hunt (1967) The Shooting of Caribou Lou (1967) At the Caribou Crossing Place: Part 2 (1967) Ti-Jean caribou (1963) Caribou Hunters (1951)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	25 Bicycle Tours in Maine: Coastal and Inland Rides from Kittery to Caribou (25 Bicycle Tours Series) (reference) A Caribou Alphabet (A Sunburst Book) (reference) A Caribou Journey (reference) Caribou and the Barren-Lands (reference) Deer, Moose, Elk & Caribou (Kids Can Press Wildlife Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Caribou News In Brief (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Dall Sheep and Mountain Caribou (reference) Muskox and Caribou (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Caribou (+4 Bonus Tracks) (Jpn Lp Sleeve [IMPORT] (reference) Caribou [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Caribou.Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).		Station Caribou after being struck by lightning - Elevation 9816 feet Elevation 9816 feet Triangulation party of William M. Scaife.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	A skinned caribou getting ready for the frying pan. Mosquito headnet man to left. The other man is Samuel Penangoona.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Caribou being butchered and skinned by Eskimo hunter at Leavitt Island Caribou steak that night and some for the dogs too!.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Bell UH-1M ready to load recruited reindeer for Santa's sleigh. Just kidding! Caribou passing by helicopter supporting bird observation camp on North Slope.Credit: Flying With NOAA.		Caribou skull and fall tundra near Salmon Lake, Seward Peninsula.Credit: Nick Seifert.
	Biologists and Caribou Calf.Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.		Raised Platform with Butchered Caribou or Reindeer.Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.
	An elderly Eskimo man, wearing clothes made from caribou skin, in front of dog team watching the Coast Guard icebreaker Eastwind depart the Cape Christian area.Credit: Library of Congress.		Caribou carcasses.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Caribou" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Caribou" is used about 46 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)	95.65%	44	51,500
Noun (proper)	2.17%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	2.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	46	N/A

1. Caribou, ME (city, FIPS 10565)
Location: 46.86679 N, 67.99056 W
Population (1990): 9415 (4089 housing units)
Area: 205.4 sq km (land), 2.3 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 04736
Country: USA

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Expression: Caribou

Expressions using "caribou": Barren Ground caribou ♦ caribou CodeWorks ♦ caribou County ♦ Greenland caribou ♦ R caribou ♦ Rangifer caribou ♦ woodland caribou. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "caribou": Turbo-caribou.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Caribou

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
caribou maine	461	caribou photo	9
caribou	381	caribou hunting canada	8
caribou coffee	363	caribou hotel	8
caribou hunting	130	caribou maine real estate	8
caribou college university	58	caribou de migration	7
banff caribou lodge	47	quebec caribou hunting	7
caribou picture	39	caribou ford	7
au caribou chasse	32	camper caribou truck	7
alaska caribou hunting	25	caribou outfitters	7
woodland caribou	23	caribou lake	7
caribou college	20	caribou import	6
caribou hunt	19	caribou wilderness	6
camper caribou	17	caribou mountain	6
caribou highland	17	caribou university	6
caribou me weather	13	caribou high school	6
cafe caribou	12	woodland caribou park	6
alaska caribou	12	caribou industry	5
caribou lodge	11	caribou creek	5
caribou national forest	11	caribou nova scotia	5
camp caribou	11	caribou highland lodge	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Caribou

Language		Translations for "caribou"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Blackfoot		a'sínnoka. (various references)

Chinese		北美驯鹿. (various references)

Danish		caribou (reindeer), rensdyr (reindeer), ren (clean, pure, reindeer, unadulterated). (various references)

Dutch		rendier (reindeer). (various references)

Farsi		گوزن کاناداءی(ج.ش.), گوزن امریکاءی شمالی . (various references)

Finnish		poro (dregs, grounds, reindeer, sediment). (various references)

French		renne. (various references)

German		Rentier (gentleman of leisure, man of private means, reindeer), Ren (kidney, rational use of energy, rational utilization of energy, reindeer), karibu. (various references)

Greek		καριμπού (cariboo), καναδικόσ τάρανδοσ (cariboo), τάρανδος (reindeer). (various references)

Hungarian		rénszarvas (reindeer). (various references)

Inuktitut		tuktu. (various references)

Italian		caribù, renna (reindeer). (various references)

Korean		순록 (reindeer). (various references)

Manx		carraboo. (various references)

Pig Latin		ariboucay

Portuguese		rena (elk, reindeer). (various references)

Romanian		caribu. (various references)

Spanish		reno (reindeer). (various references)

Swedish		amerikansk ren. (various references)

Turkish		kuzey amerika ren geyiği (cariboo), karibu (cariboo). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Caribou

Derivations
	Words beginning with "caribou": caribous. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Caribou" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Barbiaux, Calibogue, carabao, carbouy, carbox, caribaea, Caribonum, caribu, carico, carobo, cribu, Darboux, dariyoun, samreboi, Saracouu, Warioba. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Caribou"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "caribou" (pronounced ke"rubuw')
5	-e" r u b uw'	marabou.
3	-u b uw'	Bugaboo.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Caribou

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-o-r-u"
	-2 letters: auric, baric, boric, carbo, carob, cobia, cobra, coria, curia, curio, rabic, urbia.
	-3 letters: abri, arco, boar, bora, brio, bura, carb, ciao, coir, crab, crib, curb, obia, orca, uric.
	-4 letters: abo, air, arb, arc, bar, bio, boa, bra, bro, bur, cab, car, cob, cor, cub, cur, oar, obi, oca, ora, orb, orc, our, ria.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: caribous.
	+2 letters: binocular, corbicula, incubator, orbicular.
	+3 letters: binoculars, buccinator, columbaria, corbiculae, incubators, incubatory, lubricator, obduracies, orbiculate, procambium, rubricator.
	+4 letters: bifurcation, bimolecular, binocularly, bromouracil, buccinators, carburetion, columbarium, conurbation, lubrication, lubricators, lucubration, multicarbon, obscurantic, obscuration, orbicularly, procambiums, rubrication, rubricators, subcortical, subtraction, subtropical.
	+5 letters: bifurcations, binocularity, biomolecular, bromouracils, carburetions, conurbations, daunorubicin, elucubration, lubrications, lucubrations, microtubular, obscurantism, obscurantist, obscurations, rambunctious, ribonuclease, rubrications, subarachnoid, submicrogram, suborbicular, subtractions, tubocurarine, vocabularies.
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