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Coney Island

Definition: Coney Island

Coney Island

Noun

1. A section of Brooklyn on the Atlantic; known as an amusement center.

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


Modern Usage: Coney Island

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Good ol' Coney Island College. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Movie/TV Titles

Coney Island Honeymoon (1945)

A Coney Island Princess (1916)

Rafferty Goes to Coney Island (1915)

At Coney Island (1912)

Jack Fat and Jim Slim at Coney Island (1910)

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

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Commercial Usage: Coney Island

DomainTitle

Books

  • Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (reference)

  • A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (reference)

  • Bruce Gilden: Coney Island (reference)

  • Coney Island (reference)

  • Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God... Be Back by Five (reference)

  • Coney Island (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Coney Island

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Ulysses passing Coney Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steeplechase Park swimming pool, Coney Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Large crowd of people on Coney Island Beach. Credit: Library of Congress.

In Dreamland at night, Coney Island, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Circus rings, Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Dreamland, Coney Island at night, Sept. 6, 1904. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Ave. Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Chemical house from northwest. Credit: Library of Congress.

Destruction of dreamland, Coney Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coney Island, 1910. Credit: Library of Congress.

The evolution of the sandwich. From a New York nuisance to a Coney Island attraction. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coney Island

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

coney island

949

coney island map

11

cincinnati coney island

114

coney island leos

10

aquarium coney island

70

coney island.com

9

coney island new york

58

coney island nathans

9

coney island mermaid parade

54

coney island restaurant

9

coney island ohio

51

boardwalk coney island

9

coney island james

48

attraction coney island

9

coney island hot dog

42

coney island pool sunlight

8

amusement coney island park

42

coney island steeplechase

8

coney island ny

35

astroland coney island

8

cincinnati coney island ohio

28

cincinnati coney island oh

7

coney island national

28

coney island mermaid

7

coney island cyclone

27

coney island baby

7

beach coney island

26

coney island recipe

7

coney island sauce

19

coney island oh

7

coney island brooklyn

16

2003 coney island mermaid parade

6

coney island park

13

chili coney island

6

coney island jump parachute

12

a coney island of the mind

6

coney island picture

12

coney island pool sunlite

6

coney island usa

11

coney island park water

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Coney Island

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: canonised, lyonnaise, synodical.

-3 letters: acyloins, alencons, alnicoes, annelids, anodynes, anodynic, cannolis, canonise, celadons, codeinas, condyles, cyanides, cyanines, cyanosed, diocesan, ecdysial, inclosed, insanely, lindanes, nonacids, nonideal, saliency, secondly, solanine, syncline, syndical.

-4 letters: acinose, acnodes, acyloin, adenyls, alencon, alnicos, ancones, anisole, annelid, annoyed, anodyne, calends, candies, candles, canines, cannels, cannily, cannoli, canyons, celadon, celosia, cineols.

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

+2 letters: constrainedly, oleandomycins.

 

+3 letters: inconsiderably.

 

+4 letters: inconsiderately, platinocyanides.

 

+5 letters: polycondensation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Coney Island


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

43 6F 6E 65 79      49 73 6C 61 6E 64

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

    

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

01000011 01101111 01101110 01100101 01111001 00100000 01001001 01110011 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#121 &#32 &#73 &#115 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 006E 0065 0079      0049 0073 006C 0061 006E 0064

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

37818071912438578678070

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INDEX

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


  

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