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Definition: Awn |
AwnNoun1. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "awn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1765. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AWN | English | Automated Weather Network | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Awn |
| English words defined with "awn": Animal oats, Animated oats, Aristulate ♦ Feather grass ♦ Porcupine grass. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "awn": long awn ♦ short awn. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader inspecting first years growth of emergency reseeding after the Los Alamos fires. Some of the species planted for erosion control were prairie junegrass, slender wheatgrass, mountain brome, three awn, gambel's oak,. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | First years growth of emergency reseeding after the Los Alamos fires. Some of the species planted for erosion control and habitat improvement were prairie junegrass, slender wheatgrass, mountain brome, three awn, gambel's oak, and mountain mahogany. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Sunny awn field" by Luis Alves Commentary: "A Sunny awn field." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Awn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Awn" is used about 6 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) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "awn": down-awn, guard-awn. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
awn | 68 |
awn eezi | 7 |
awn gbafansite.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "awn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thekë (fringe, pile, stamen, tassel), thek (Brown, fall in flakes, fringe, Pierce, pile, put on speed, stamen, strike, tassel, toast). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осил. (various references) | |
Chinese | 芒. (various references) | |
Czech | osina. (various references) | |
Danish | koerner (awn cutter, awner, clipper screen, de-awner, oat clipper, rubbing machine), havrekørner (awn cutter, awner, clipper screen, de-awner, oat clipper, rubbing machine). (various references) | |
Dutch | nakorter (awn cutter, awner, clipper screen, de-awner, oat clipper, rubbing machine), haverafpunter (awn cutter, awner, clipper screen, de-awner, oat clipper, rubbing machine). (various references) | |
Finnish | vihne (beard). (various references) | |
French | épointeuse (awn cutter, awner), ébarbeuse (awn cutter, awner), ébarbeur (awn cutter, awner). (various references) | |
German | granne (beard). (various references) | |
Greek | αθήρ ή άγανον σταχυού. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלען (glume, husk). (various references) | |
Hungarian | toklász (beard). (various references) | |
Italian | barba (beard, bore, whiskers). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芒 (arista, beard), 穎 (glume). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のぎ (arista, beard), えい (a sharp, glume, surplus, victory, wrap). (various references) | |
Korean | 까끄라기. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aresta (arista, edge, gable, groin, rib), barba da espiga de cereais. (various references) | |
Romanian | mustaţã (feeler, moustache). (various references) | |
Russian | ость. (various references) | |
Scottish | calg (beard of corn, bristle, prickle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osje (beard), bodljike. (various references) | |
Spanish | arista (Arista, arris, beard, edge, edger). (various references) | |
Turkish | kılçık (bone, fishbone, fish's spine, spine, string), başak kılçığı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | остюк (beard). (various references) | |
Welsh | col. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arista. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "awn": awned, awning, awninged, awnings, awnless, awns, awny. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "awn": blawn, brawn, dawn, drawn, fawn, gnawn, impawn, indrawn, jigsawn, lawn, mawn, misdrawn, outdrawn, outfawn, outgnawn, overdrawn, pawn, prawn, predawn, quartersawn, redrawn, resawn, sawn, shawn, spawn, thrawn, treelawn, undrawn, unsawn, whipsawn, wiredrawn, withdrawn, yawn. (additional references) | |
Words containing "awn": brawnier, brawniest, brawnily, brawniness, brawninesses, brawns, brawny, dawned, dawning, dawnlike, dawns, drawnwork, drawnworks, fawned, fawner, fawners, fawnier, fawniest, fawning, fawningly, fawnlike, fawns, fawny, impawned, impawning, impawns, lawnmower, lawnmowers, lawns, lawny, mulligatawnies, mulligatawny, outfawned, outfawning, outfawns, pawnable, pawnage, pawnages, pawnbroker, pawnbrokers, pawnbroking, pawnbrokings, pawned, pawnee, pawnees, pawner, pawners, pawning, pawnor, pawnors, pawns. (additional references) | |
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"Awn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aan, Aann, abn, aen, Afn, agn, agw, ahn, aiw, aiwn, akn, aln, Anwa, apn, asn, aun, auw, awa, awana, awb, awen, awf, awg, awin, awm, awne, awo, awon, awu, awv, aww, axn, cawn, cwn, ewn, gawn, hawn, iwn, vawn, wanq. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "Awn": Bawn, Brawn, Flawn, Gawn, Lawn, Prawn. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: naw, wan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-w" | |
-1 letter: an, aw, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-w" | |
+1 letter: anew, awns, awny, dawn, fawn, gnaw, hwan, lawn, mawn, pawn, sawn, snaw, swan, wain, wand, wane, wans, want, wany, warn, wean, yawn. | |
+2 letters: adown, awing, awned, blawn, brawn, bwana, dawen, dawns, dewan, diwan, drawn, fawns, fawny, gnawn, gnaws, gowan, jawan, lawns, lawny, nawab, noway, pawns, prawn, rawin, rewan, rowan, sewan, shawn, snaws, spawn, swain, swang, swank, swans, tawny, twain, twang, wagon, wains, waken, wands, waned, wanes, waney, wanly, wants, warns, waxen, weans, whang, wigan, witan, woman, wrang, yawns. | |
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