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Caldwell

Definition: Caldwell

Caldwell

Noun

1. United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987).

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

Date "Caldwell" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Caldwell

Synonyms: Erskine Caldwell (n), Erskine Preston Caldwell (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Caldwell

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Caldwell is the name of several places in the United States of America:

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

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Crosswords: Caldwell

English words defined with "Caldwell": Erskine Caldwell, Erskine Preston Caldwell. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Caldwell": 070062492543724670227783683605Blue Hen. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Caldwell" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (Caldwell), German (Caldwell), Italian (Caldwell), Spanish (Caldwell).

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Modern Usage: Caldwell

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Erskine Caldwell (2000)

Song Titles

Midnight Promises (performing artist: Toy Caldwell)

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

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Commercial Usage: Caldwell

DomainTitle

References

  • Caldwell Investments P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Observing the Caldwell Objects (reference)

  • Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945 (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) (reference)

  • Parks for Texas: Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) (reference)

  • Savage Hearts Volume Two: The Clyde Caldwell Sketchbook (reference)

  • Texas Cemeteries (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, No. 5) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Caldwell

Photos:
Caldwell

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Photo Album: Caldwell

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Mrs. Pearl Caldwell operates the MacBeth densitometer photographed by Ralph Bredland.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Charles Caldwell, M.D.] / From an Oil Painting.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Charles Caldwell, M.D. / J. Sartain.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Charles Caldwell, M.D. / Engr. by Illman & Sons [From a painting by J.R. Lambdin].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Jesse B. Caldwell, Jr.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

John Caldwell Calhoun. / Engraved by T.B. Welch from an Drawing by J.B. Longacre.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A French Physician With His Retinue going to Visit His Patients. / Brandoin pinx. Caldwell Sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

  

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

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Spoken Usage: Caldwell

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Cary Goldstein

The only thing I do know is that we have been telling the police, Marge in particular told the police, about a botched attempt that Bonny had told us about, when Caldwell, Blake and Bonny were out in the desert camping.

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

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Usage Frequency: Caldwell

"Caldwell" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.12% of the time. "Caldwell" is used about 114 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)99.12%11330,464
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.88%1339,140
                    Total100.00%114N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Caldwell

The following table summarizes the usage of "Caldwell" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CaldwellLast name39,000272
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Caldwell

CountryName
United Kingdom

Caldwell Investments P.L.C.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Caldwell


1. Caldwell, AR (town, FIPS 10450)
Location: 35.07933 N, 90.81508 W
Population (1990): 334 (119 housing units)
Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA


2. Caldwell, ID (city, FIPS 12250)
Location: 43.65834 N, 116.67486 W
Population (1990): 18400 (7131 housing units)
Area: 23.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 83605
Country: USA


3. Caldwell, KS (city, FIPS 9900)
Location: 37.03515 N, 97.60868 W
Population (1990): 1351 (716 housing units)
Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 67022
Country: USA


4. Caldwell, NJ (CDP, FIPS 9220)
Location: 40.83837 N, 74.27786 W
Population (1990): 7549 (3362 housing units)
Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA


5. Caldwell, OH (village, FIPS 10940)
Location: 39.74576 N, 81.51314 W
Population (1990): 1786 (864 housing units)
Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 43724
Country: USA


6. Caldwell, TX (city, FIPS 11836)
Location: 30.52914 N, 96.70299 W
Population (1990): 3181 (1396 housing units)
Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 77836
Country: USA


7. Caldwell, WV
Zip Code(s): 24925
Country: USA

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Expression: Caldwell

Expressions using "Caldwell": Caldwell County Caldwell Parish Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell North Caldwell West Caldwell. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Caldwell": caldwell-reckless.

Ending with "Caldwell": pre-caldwell.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Caldwell

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

caldwell new jersey

679

caldwell kimberly

446

caldwell banker real estate

313

caldwell

282

real estate caldwell

203

caldwell banker realty

196

caldwell idaho

160

caldwell college community

138

caldwell college

115

brown and caldwell

91
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Caldwell

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

Danish

  

Caldwell-Luc's operation (Caldwell-Luc operation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

radikale operatie van de kaak (Caldwell-Luc operation), operatie van Caldwell-Luc (Caldwell-Luc operation). (various references)

   

French

  

caldwell. (various references)

   

German

  

caldwell. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγχείρησις των CALDWELL-LUC,ριζική αφαίρεσις του γναθιαίου άντρου (Caldwell-Luc operation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

caldwell. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aldwellcay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

caldwell. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Caldwell

Misspellings

"Caldwell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caddell, Caldway, caldwells, Cardweil, Cawdwell, Codwell, Radwell, Scalwell. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Caldwell

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-l-l-w"

-2 letters: called, clawed, declaw, lalled, walled.

-3 letters: cawed, cella, clade, decal, dwell, laced, ladle, lawed, waled, weald.

-4 letters: aced, alec, awed, cade, call, cell, clad, claw, clew, dace, dale, deal, dell, lace, lade, lall, lead, leal, lewd, wade, wale, wall, weal, weld, well.

-5 letters: ace, ale, all, awe, awl, cad, caw, cel, dal, daw, del, dew, eld, ell, lac, lad, law, lea, led, wad, wae, wed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Caldwell


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

43 61 6C 64 77 65 6C 6C

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    .-..    -..    .--.    .    .-..    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01100001 01101100 01100100 01110111 01100101 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#108 &#100 &#119 &#101 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006C 0064 0077 0065 006C 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3767787089717878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Cities
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Derivations
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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