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Date "BEDFORD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bedford Saxon, Bedean-forda (fortress ford)- that is, the ford at the fortress of the river Ouse. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bedford."
Crosswords: BEDFORD |
| English words defined with "BEDFORD": To take a name in vain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BEDFORD": Bedford Level, Bedford limestone ♦ Che sara, sara ♦ John with the Leaden Sword ♦ Southampton Street. (references) |
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Lyrics | I walked through Bedford Stuy alone (You May Be Right; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Bedford Incident (1965) Bedford Springs (2002) New Bedford (1982) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A southeastern view of New Bedford as seen from Fairhaven. Palmer's Island is in the left center of the picture and bridge to Fairhaven is on the right. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A western view of Fairhaven as seen from New Bedford. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Whaling vessels at New Bedford, Massachusetts, in October 1901. In: "Aquatic Products in Arts and Industries" by Charles H. Stevenson. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 186, Plate 11. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A map of New Bedford Harbor. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A slide describing the restoration goals at the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | New Bedford Harbor, CDF 1 looking north. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Fort Phoenix at the SE entrance of New Bedford Harbor. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | An aerial view of the Commercial Fish Pier in New Bedford Harbor, inner harbor, New Bedford side. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Shellfish transplants, New Bedford Harbor. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Eelgrass being transplanted to outer New Bedford Harbor. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "BEDFORD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BEDFORD" is used about 654 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% | 654 | 10,005 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BEDFORD" 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 |
| Bedford | Last name | 3,000 | 3,534 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Bedford Bancshares, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Bedford, IA (city, FIPS 5365) 2. Bedford, IN (city, FIPS 4114) 3. Bedford, KY (city, FIPS 4816) 4. Bedford, MA 5. Bedford, NH 6. Bedford, NY (CDP, FIPS 5309) 7. Bedford, OH (city, FIPS 4878) 8. Bedford, PA (borough, FIPS 4944) 9. Bedford, TX (city, FIPS 7132) 10. Bedford, VA (city, FIPS 515) 11. Bedford, VA (city, FIPS 5544) 12. Bedford, WY |
Expressions using "BEDFORD": Bedford cord ♦ Bedford County ♦ Bedford Heights ♦ Bedford Hills ♦ Bedford Park ♦ new bedford. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "BEDFORD": bedford-based, Bedford-st. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
new bedford ma | 1,119 | city of bedford texas | 57 |
bedford ma | 630 | bedford village inn | 46 |
bedford nh | 607 | bedford county virginia | 43 |
bedford texas | 587 | tyson bedford | 43 |
bedford united kingdom | 395 | bedford boy ranch | 43 |
a bedford | 322 | bedford old village | 42 |
bedford pennsylvania | 245 | bedford county | 41 |
bedford indiana | 244 | bedford iowa | 39 |
bedford virginia | 229 | bedford speedway | 39 |
bedford umez | 191 | bedford euless hurst isd | 38 |
bedford new standard times | 179 | bedford times mail | 37 |
bedford fair | 175 | bedford park illinois | 35 |
bedford ohio | 172 | new bedford massachusetts | 35 |
new bedford | 151 | bedford council | 34 |
bedford ny | 139 | bedford martins st | 33 |
nathan bedford forrest | 114 | bedford new hampshire | 32 |
city of bedford | 83 | bedford county va | 32 |
bedford kentucky | 79 | bedford gazette | 32 |
bedford hills ny | 67 | bedford high school | 31 |
bedford hotel | 64 | bedford county school | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "BEDFORD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 贝得福得. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Bedford-cord (Bedford cord), piqué (Bedford cord, piqué, vesting, welt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | piqué (Bedford cord), IOB (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), Institut océnographique de Bedford (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), côte de cheval (Bedford cord). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Bedford-Kord (Bedford cord), Steppgewebe (Bedford cord, piqué, vesting, welt), Piqué (Bedford cord, piqué, vesting, warp knitted piqué, welt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πικέ (Bedford cord, piqué, vesting, welt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Bedford cord (Bedford cord), piqué (Bedford cord, piqué, vesting, welt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edfordbay piqué (Bedford cord, piqué, vesting, welt), cordão Bedford (Bedford cord). (various references) pique (pique), IOB (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), Instituto Oceanográfico de Bedford (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), canutillo (Bedford cord, purl), acolchado (padded, padding, quilted, quilting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BEDFORD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberford, Basfords, Beafort, Bedeford, Bedfords, Bednorg, Beeford, Beffroy, Bendaoud, Beufort, Bexford, Bidford, Bodffordd, Boiffard, Bomford, Bomfords, Borford, Breffort, Bretford, Hedfors, Pendeford. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-f-o-r" | |
-1 letter: fodder, forded. | |
-2 letters: boded, bored, odder, orbed, robed. | |
-3 letters: bode, bore, bred, doer, dore, eddo, feod, forb, ford, fore, froe, redd, redo, robe, rode. | |
-4 letters: bed, bod, bro, deb, doe, dor, fed, fer, fob, foe, for, fro, obe, odd, ode, orb, ore, reb, red, ref, rob, rod, roe. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, ef. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-f-o-r" | |
+1 letter: forboded. | |
+2 letters: forbidden, forbidder, foreboded. | |
+3 letters: bodysurfed, forbidders. | |
+4 letters: dumbfounder, forbiddance, surfboarded. | |
+5 letters: dumbfounders, forbiddances. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 44 46 4F 52 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.. ..-. --- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01000100 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E D F O R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0044 0046 004F 0052 0044 |
| 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)36393840495238 |
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