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Clydesdale

Definition: Clydesdale

Clydesdale

Noun

1. Heavy feathered-legged breed of draft horse originally from Scotland.

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

Date "Clydesdale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Specialty Definition: Clydesdale

DomainDefinition

Slang

Adj. Source: Clydedales are certain type of horses that are very large, but beautiful. Definition: A tall, but very good-looking girl. Context: The word is used in situations to describe a very tall, but pretty girl. Social Source: Ebonic using persons. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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Crosswords: Clydesdale

English words defined with "Clydesdale": Clydesdale terrier. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Clydesdale": Clydesdale HorsesShire Horses. (references)

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Modern Usage: Clydesdale

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yeah! Clydesdale! (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick)

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Commercial Usage: Clydesdale

DomainTitle

Books

  • Clydesdale Horse (reference)

  • Clydesdale Spirit (Spirit of the Horse) (reference)

  • The Clydesdale Clan of Hillsboro County: The Homestead (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Clydesdale

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Usage Frequency: Clydesdale

"Clydesdale" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clydesdale" is used about 93 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)100%9334,067

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

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Expressions: Clydesdale

Expression using "Clydesdale": Clydesdale terrier. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Clydesdale": clydesdale-type.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clydesdale

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

clydesdale

801

clydesdale stallion

4

clydesdale horse

164

bank clydesdale plc

4

clydesdale bank

54

clydesdale pic

3

clydesdale picture

22

clydesdale triathlon

3

clydesdale horse picture

20

budweiser clydesdale figurine

3

clydesdale horse for sale

15

clydesdale foal

3

budweiser clydesdale

10

clydesdale team

3

clydesdale figurine

8

chestnut clydesdale stallion

3

budweiser clydesdale horse

8

clydesdale farm

3

clydesdale sale

7

budweiser clydesdale collection horse

2

clydesdale photo

6

clydesdale horse pic

2

breeders clydesdale

6

clydesdale thoroughbred

2

celeste clydesdale

5

black clydesdale

2

athlete clydesdale

5

case clydesdale

2

clydesdale horse photo

5

clydesdale figurine wholesale

2

clydesdale running

4

budweiser clydesdale picture

2

david clydesdale

4

budweiser clydesdale light

2

clydesdale stallions

4

clydesdale commercial

2

david t clydesdale

4

clydesdale weanling

2

clydesdale runner

4

clydesdale grade horse sale

2

clydesdale penis

2
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Misspellings: Clydesdale

Misspellings

"Clydesdale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clydesale. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Clydesdale"

Words rhyming with "Clydesdale" (pronounced 'Clydes"dale'): Pardale. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Clydesdale

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-l-l-s-y"

-2 letters: cadelles.

-3 letters: allseed, cadelle, decades, decayed, delayed, deleads, scalded.

-4 letters: addles, allees, alleys, called, ceased, cellae, celled, clades, clayed, dalles, deadly, decade, decals, decays, delays, delead, ladled, ladles, leaded, leased, lycees, saddle, scaled, sealed, slayed, yelled.

-5 letters: acyls, addle, aedes, alecs, allee, alley, caddy, cades, calls, cased, cease, ceded, cedes, cella, cells, clade, clads.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-l-l-s-y"
 

+5 letters: glyceraldehydes.

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Alternative Orthography: Clydesdale


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

43 6C 79 64 65 73 64 61 6C 65

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 01101100 01111001 01100100 01100101 01110011 01100100 01100001 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#121 &#100 &#101 &#115 &#100 &#97 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0079 0064 0065 0073 0064 0061 006C 0065

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

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

37789170718570677871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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