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Bible Belt

Definition: Bible Belt

Bible Belt

Noun

1. Southern United States; where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Modern Usage: Bible Belt

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Let the Bible Belt come and ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

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

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Specialty Definition: Bible belt

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A bible belt is an area of fundamentalist protestantism, where reliance on teachings from the holy books of Christianity is at its most pervasive, and often its most literal. In particular, the Bible Belt (with capitals) covers a number of southern and midwestern states of the U.S.

The "belt" terminology is common in the U.S. to describe regions with a roughly east-west orientation that share a feature: e.g., the Rust Belt (declining industrial areas) and the Sun Belt (hot-weather states in the south and west).

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

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Commercial Usage: Bible Belt

DomainTitle

Books

  • In God's Country: Travels in the Bible Belt, USA (reference)

  • In Search of the Thingamajig: In the Bible Belt and Beyond (Pbk) (reference)

  • Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (reference)

  • The Bible belt mystique (reference)

  • The Culture of Bible Belt Catholics (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bible Belt

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bible belt

42
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Modern Translations: Bible Belt

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

Dutch

  

Bijbel-Gordel, bijbelband. (various references)

   

French

  

ceinture de la Bible. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iblebay eltbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bible Belt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-b-e-e-i-l-l-t"

-3 letters: billet.

-4 letters: belie, belle, betel, bible, blite, ebbet, elite, libel.

-5 letters: beet, bell, belt, bibb, bile, bill, bite, bleb, blet, leet, lilt, lite, teel, tele, tell, tile, till.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bible Belt


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 62 6C 65      42 65 6C 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01000010 01100101 01101100 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#98 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#101 &#108 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0062 006C 0065      0042 0065 006C 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3675687871236717886

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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