Cornwallis

Definition: Cornwallis

Cornwallis

Noun

1. Commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown.

Date "Cornwallis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

Synonyms: Cornwallis

Synonyms: Charles Cornwallis (n), First Marquess Cornwallis (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cornwallis

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cornwallis

English words defined with "Cornwallis": Yorktown. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Cornwallis": Amiens ♦ Conway Cabal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Cornwallis

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Ballad to Cornwallis (1975)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cornwallis

Domain	Title
Books	Plugs and Plug Circles: A Basic Form of Patterned Ground, Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada: Origin and Implications (Memoir (Geological Society of America), No. 190) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cornwallis

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Photo Album: Cornwallis

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cornwallis Island. 61 04 S Latitude 54 28 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Nelson House, Yorktown, Va., headquarters of General Cornwallis. Credit: Library of Congress.
	British stores which could not be removed from Gallipoli burning on the shores of Suvla Bay. From a British official photograph taken from the deck of H.M.S. Cornwallis, the last ship to leave the Dardanelles. Credit: Library of Congress.		Yorktown, Va. Augustine Moore house, in which Lord Cornwallis signed the capitulation of 1781. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Credit: Library of Congress.		U.S. Capitol frescoes. Surrender of General Cornwallis. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cornwallis

"Cornwallis" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cornwallis" is used about 9 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%	9	117,287

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

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Expressions: Cornwallis

Expressions using "Cornwallis": Charles Cornwallis ♦ first Marquess Cornwallis. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Cornwallis": Cornwallis-west.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cornwallis

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
general cornwallis	31
cornwallis	28
cornwallis general surrender	20
charles cornwallis	18
american army british cornwallis did end general his revolution surrender where	16
cornwallis lord	12
cornwallis surrender	10
american army british cornwallis end general his revolution surrender	6
cornwallis edward	4
cornwallis nova scotia	4
cornwallis hmcs	3
cornwallis fort	3
cfrs cornwallis	2
army british cornwallis general his surrender	2
cornwallis did general surrender where	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Cornwallis

Misspellings
	"Cornwallis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carswalle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cornwallis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: carillons.
	-2 letters: carillon, clarions, inscroll, scallion.
	-3 letters: alnicos, carlins, clarion, collars, collins, inwalls, oilcans, warison.
	-4 letters: acorns, allows, alnico, aloins, arsino, aswirl, cairns, callow, carlin, caroli, carols, casino, claros, clinal, clonal, clowns, colins, collar, corals, crawls, crowns, inwall, lilacs, linacs, llanos, locals, lorans, lorica, narcos, nicols, norias, oilcan, orcins, racons, rawins, rowans, sailor, sallow.
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