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Definition: Minden |
MindenNoun1. A battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Minden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
Synonym: MindenSynonym: battle of Minden (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Minden was first mentioned in 798, when Charlemagne held a convention at the place. In the following centuries Minden became a cultural centre of the region. The marriage of Henry the Lion took place in the cathedral of Minden (1168). Minden was a member of the Hanseatic League and an independent bishopric principality. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 the state was annexed by Brandenburg.
Other places called Minden:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Minden."
Crosswords: Minden |
| English words defined with "Minden": battle of Minden. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Minden": Macaber, Minden Boys. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Minden" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (all, all the, altogether, beyond belief, each, every, every one, everybody, everything, everything is at sixes and sevens, knowing card, max, odd hand, shirt-sleeve, to all appearances, to consider all angles of the question, to examine a question in all its bearings, to shake all over, to study every aspect of a question). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Minden út hozzád vezet (1972) Délibáb minden mennyiségben (1961) Minden egér szereti a sajtot (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Minden High School, Minden, La. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad, Minden, La. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Minden" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Minden" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Minden" 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 |
| Minden | Last name | 200 | 39,845 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Minden Bancshares, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Minden, IA (city, FIPS 52590) 2. Minden, LA (city, FIPS 50885) 3. Minden, NE (city, FIPS 32340) 4. Minden, NV (CDP, FIPS 47000) |
Expressions using "Minden": battle of Minden ♦ Minden City ♦ New Minden. Additional references. | |
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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. |
Misspellings | |
"Minden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hinden, Menden, Menken, Menten, Milden, Minadeo, Mindel, Mindon, Muirden, Munden, Muyden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-n" | |
-1 letter: denim, inned, mined. | |
-2 letters: deni, dime, dine, idem, mend, mien, mind, mine, nide, nine. | |
-3 letters: den, die, dim, din, end, inn, med, men, mid, nim. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, em, en, id, in, me, mi, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-n-n" | |
+1 letter: mending, minuend, unmined. | |
+2 letters: amandine, amending, demonian, emending, indamine, landmine, mendings, minuends. | |
+3 letters: almandine, bedamning, condiment, dampening, decennium, demanding, demeaning, dementing, denominal, dimension, dominance, impendent, impending, indamines, indemnify, indemnity, landmines, maddening, mainlined, mandoline, menadione, mendicant, mentioned, mildening, mispenned, netminder, nicknamed, nominated, remanding, remending, reminding, undermine, unmingled, womenkind. | |
+4 letters: adamantine, almandines, amantadine, antimodern, antimonide, comedienne, commending, condemning, condiments, decenniums, definement, demonising, demonizing, demounting, denominate, designment, detainment, dimensions, diminuendo, dinnertime, disownment, dominances, emendating, emendation, endamaging, handmaiden, indictment, inducement, intendment, intermedin, mainlander, maintained, mandolines, maundering, meandering, medicining, menadiones, mendicancy, mendicants, mindedness, misplanned, missending, mistending, monandries, munitioned, netminders, nonadmirer, nonmedical, ordainment, uncombined, undermined, undermines, unexamined, uninformed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 69 6E 64 65 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .. -. -.. . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i n d e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 006E 0064 0065 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)477580707180 |
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