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DOOMS

Specialty Definition: Dooms, Virginia

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Dooms is a town located in Augusta County, Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,282.

Geography


Dooms is located at 38°6'8" North, 78°51'13" West (38.102255, -78.853735)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 10.3 km² (4.0 mi²). 10.3 km² (4.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,282 people, 522 households, and 386 families residing in the town. The population density is 124.7/km² (323.0/mi²). There are 553 housing units at an average density of 53.8/km² (139.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.43% White, 1.33% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.17% from two or more races. 0.62% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 522 households out of which 26.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.8% are married couples living together, 9.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.9% are non-families. 21.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.40 and the average family size is 2.77. In the town the population is spread out with 21.4% under the age of 18, 4.8% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 28.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 94.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $31,940, and the median income for a family is $37,800. Males have a median income of $29,347 versus $24,083 for females. The per capita income for the town is $24,600. 10.0% of the population and 9.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 8.7% are under the age of 18 and 8.3% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dooms, Virginia."

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"DOOMS" is a plural of: doom.

Date "DOOMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)


Crosswords: DOOMS

Specialty definitions using "DOOMS": Doom Book. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DOOMS

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Familiar Quotations: DOOMS

AuthorQuotation

George Eliot

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: DOOMS

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

Grover Cleveland

1885-1889; 1893-1897The strong man who in the confidence of sturdy health courts the sternest activities of life and rejoices in the hardihood of constant labor may still have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Name Usage Frequency: DOOMS

The following table summarizes the usage of "DOOMS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DoomsLast name13064,485
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: DOOMS


1. Dooms, VA (CDP, FIPS 22976)
Location: 38.10347 N, 78.84835 W
Population (1990): 1307 (489 housing units)
Area: 10.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Modern Translation: DOOMS

Language Translations for "DOOMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

съвсем (all, altogether, clean, clear, completely, directly, fairly, just, largely, most, plain, precious, quite, real, regularly, simply, sopping, spang, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly, wide). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

死命 (DOOM). (various references)

   

German

  

verurteilt (condemned, condemnes, condemns, damnes, doomed, sentenced). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

운명 (Destinies, Destiny, DOOM, Fate, Fates, mortal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oomsday

   

Russian 

  

ужасно (atrociously, awesomely, awfully, bally, beastly, confoundedly, damnably, fearfully, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, terribly), крайне (exceptionally interesting, extremely, sorely, the worst kind, utterly), очень (anxiously, awful, awfully, badly, damnably, enormously, ever so, exceedingly, extremely, greatly, highly, hugely, immensely, jolly, miserably, most, much, overwhelmingly, particularly, passing, pretty much, quite, real, screamingly, so, thumping, to a degree, too, vastly, very, very much, very much indeed, well). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DOOMS

Derivations

Words beginning with "DOOMS": doomsayer, doomsayers, doomsaying, doomsayings, doomsday, doomsdayer, doomsdayers, doomsdays, doomster, doomsters. (additional references)

Words ending with "DOOMS": foredooms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DOOMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dcom, Deums, diom, dions, dlom, dnom, doam, doans, Dodoma, doim, dojos, domos, doms, domus, dooks, dooma, doomy, doona, doones, doos, doum, douma, Doumas, dumbs, dumosa, duom. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DOOMS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "DOOMS" (pronounced duw"mz)
3-uw" m zassumes, blooms, booms, brooms, consumes, Coombs, costumes, exhumes, flumes, fumes, grooms, looms, perfumes, plumes, presumes, resumes, rooms, tombs, zooms.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DOOMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: moods, sodom.

Words within the letters "d-m-o-o-s"

-1 letter: doms, doom, mods, mood, moos.

-2 letters: dom, dos, mod, moo, mos, ods, oms, sod, som.

-3 letters: do, mo, od, om, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "d-m-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: duomos, mondos, sodoms, sodomy.

 

+2 letters: bosomed, bossdom, comedos, condoms, dodoism, dogdoms, dominos, dromons, osmosed, tomcods.

 

+3 letters: bedrooms, boredoms, bossdoms, commodes, composed, dayrooms, disbosom, dodoisms, dogedoms, dolesome, dominoes, doomsday, doomster, doormats, dormouse, dromonds, endosmos, endosome, gumwoods, hoodlums, lordomas, madronos, madzoons, malodors, manhoods, mastodon, midnoons, modiolus, moidores, monodies, monodist, moodiest, moondust, moonseed, mudrooms, outmodes, popedoms, quomodos, shmoozed, smooched, smoothed, snowmold, sodomies, sodomist, sodomite, sodomize, somebody, stomodea, towmonds, vamoosed, woodsman, woodsmen.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Names: Frequency
7. Cities
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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