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Definition: Avon |
AvonNoun1. A river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn. 2. A river in central England that flows through Stratford-on-Avon and empties into the Severn. 3. A county in southwestern England. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Avon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
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Computing | Avon A dataflow language. ["AVON: A Dataflow Language", A. Deb, ICS 87, Second Intl Conf on Supercomputing, v.3, pp.9-19 (ISI 1987)]. (1994-11-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Synonym: AvonSynonym: Upper Avon (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Avon |
| English words defined with "Avon": Bristol ♦ Stratford-on-Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Avon": Bards ♦ Friar's Heel ♦ Melesigenes ♦ Swan of Avon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Avon" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Cornish (river). |
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Screenplays | Vila weighs seventy-three kilos, Avon (Blake's 7; writing credit: Peter S. Fischer; Anna Sewell) Avon lady. (Rocky II; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone) | |
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 | River Avon, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand. Credit: CDC. |  | Searching for submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV's) in the Tred Avon River. Part of an annual Bay-wide ground-truthing effort. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Eroded cliffs along the Tred Avon River reveal buried piles of oyster shells. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Statue of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott along the Avon River in Christchurch, New Zealand. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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Business | Of the 14 RECs that began as independents, American companies such as Dominion Resources, Entergy Corporation, and Avon Energy Partners have acquired seven. (references) | |
A number of Western make-up manufacturers, such as Avon, Mary Kay, Zepter, Neways, Vitamax, Oriflame, Lek, Herbalife are actively introducing multilevel marketing techniques for promoting and increasing sales of their products. (references) | ||
Water transport on the principal river systems, Thames, Severn, Trent, Stour, Humber and Avon, though not their navigable estuaries, and more than 2000 miles of canals is managed by a government-controlled company, British Waterways. (references) | ||
Economic History | Morocco | Avon and Oriflame are active in door-to-door cosmetic sales. (references) |
Bulgaria | Avon and the Swedish company Oriflame report success in the direct sale of cosmetics. (references) | |
Ecuador | Avon and several Colombian brands use direct marketing through their sales representatives. (references) | |
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| "Avon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.95% of the time. "Avon" is used about 473 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) | 98.95% | 469 | 12,605 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.05% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 473 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Avon" 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 |
| Avon | Last name | 130 | 65,903 |
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| Japan | Avon Products Company Limited | United Kingdom | Avon Rubber p.l.c. |
| USA | Avon Products Inc | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Avon, AL (town, FIPS 3364) 2. Avon, CO (town, FIPS 4110) 3. Avon, CT 4. Avon, IL (village, FIPS 3207) 5. Avon, IN 6. Avon, MA 7. Avon, MN (city, FIPS 3070) 8. Avon, NY (village, FIPS 3353) 9. Avon, OH (city, FIPS 3352) 10. Avon, SD (city, FIPS 2900) |
Expressions using "Avon": Avon By The Sea ♦ Avon Heights ♦ Avon Lake ♦ Avon Park ♦ bard of avon ♦ Ben Avon ♦ Ben Avon Heights ♦ Glen Avon ♦ the swan of avon ♦ upper Avon. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Avon": avon-based, Avon-by-the-Sea. | |
Ending with "Avon": Bradford-on-avon. | |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
avon | 6,868 | avon new york | 95 |
avon product | 662 | avon com | 84 |
stratford upon avon | 466 | avon north carolina | 75 |
avon collectible | 421 | avon skin so soft | 72 |
avon ct | 406 | avon motorcycle tire | 62 |
avon colorado | 245 | avon ma | 59 |
avon nc | 235 | avon boat | 53 |
avon lake ohio | 193 | stratford upon avon united kingdom | 52 |
avon park florida | 187 | avon walk | 49 |
avon ohio | 186 | avon by the sea | 49 |
avon tire | 178 | avon collectible bottle | 48 |
avon cosmetic | 172 | avon fashions | 48 |
avon bottle | 161 | stratford on avon | 47 |
avon representative | 132 | avon catalog | 44 |
avon indiana | 130 | avon tyres | 43 |
avon canada | 120 | selling avon | 42 |
avon book | 114 | avon minnesota | 40 |
avon breast cancer walk | 112 | avon high school | 39 |
avon coupon | 110 | avon becoming | 37 |
avon by the sea new jersey | 97 | avon board district maitland school | 36 |
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| Language | Translations for "Avon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | shakespeare (bard of avon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Shakespeare (bard of Avon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avonay Шекспир (the Bard of Avon). (various references) sheakespeare (bard of avon), shakespeare (the swan of avon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words containing "Avon": favonian, flavone, flavones, flavonoid, flavonoids, flavonol, flavonols, pavonine. (additional references) | |
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"Avon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adon, Advin, Akon, anov, Arvo, avan, Avaon, Avco, avcom, avin, avo, Avona, avond, avons, avown, avox, avron, Bavon, favon, ivon, Navon, Pavoni, Qazvin, Ravno, Ravony, tavon, uvon, Vanov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nova. | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-o-v" | |
-1 letter: avo, ova, van. | |
-2 letters: an, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-o-v" | |
+1 letter: avion, novae, novas. | |
+2 letters: avions, novena, sovran, volant. | |
+3 letters: anchovy, avionic, avowing, centavo, concave, corvina, dogvane, evasion, flavone, naevoid, nouveau, novella, novenae, novenas, ovarian, ovation, overman, overran, sovrans, synovia, unvocal, valonia, vanpool, volante, volcano. | |
+4 letters: advowson, alluvion, anovular, anviltop, aversion, aviation, avionics, avoiding, avulsion, bevatron, bravoing, cavicorn, centavos, conative, concaved, concaves, conclave, conferva, cordovan, corvinas, covalent, covenant, dogvanes, donative, endeavor, evasions, favonian, favoring, flavanol, flavones, flavonol, graviton, handover, hangover, innovate, invasion, invocate, lavation, mangrove, nonnaval, nonrival, nonvalid, nonviral, nonvocal, novalike, novation, novellas, novercal, omnivora, outvaunt, ovalness, ovations, ovenware, overhand, overhang, overlain, overland, overmans, overmany, overnear, overneat, overplan, overrank, parvolin, pavilion, pavillon, pavonine, pivotman, ravenous, renovate, salvoing, savoring, sovranly, sovranty, synovial, synovias, unavowed, univocal, unsavory, vacation, vagabond, valonias, vamosing, vanadous, vanitory, vanpools, vaporing, venation, venogram, veronica, vexation, vindaloo, visional, vocation, voidance, volcanic, volcanos, volitant, volplane, voyaging. | |
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