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Definition: COWAN |
COWANNoun1. One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. |
Etymology: Cowan \Cow"an\ (kou"an), noun. [Compare to Old French couillon coward, cullion.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: COWAN |
| Specialty definitions using "COWAN": WFL. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cowan, Tennessee."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Charles Cowan photographed by Ernest Edwards. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | On the right is the Cowan residence into which the Negro raiders fired twenty shots, Aug. 13th, 1906. Brownsville, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Group portrait of Thomas Cowan, radio stage director and announcer and staff. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "COWAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.51% of the time. "COWAN" is used about 87 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) | 88.51% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.75% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.75% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 87 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "COWAN" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cowan | Last name | 12,000 | 1,008 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cowan, TN (city, FIPS 17700) |
Expression using "COWAN": Cowan Heights. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"COWAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chwang, Cofan, Cowap, Cowin, Cowtan, Jowan, Kowa, Mcswan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "COWAN" (pronounced 'Cow"an'): Achean, Achillean, Adamantean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Augean, Basan, Biscayan, Bryozoan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Circean, Clachan, Colossean, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Genian, Gigantean, Iroquoian, Lernean, Lethean, Lochan, Logan, Lyncean, Maccabean, Mausolean, Medicean, metazoan, Murexan, Neogaean, Nymphean, OEnocyan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: awn, can, caw, con, cow, naw, now, oca, own, wan, won. | |
-3 letters: an, aw, na, no, on, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: cowman. | |
+2 letters: cowbane, cowhand, snowcap. | |
+3 letters: careworn, cordwain, cowbanes, cowhands, coxswain, downcast, facedown, snowcaps, snowpack, wahconda, wainscot. | |
+4 letters: allowance, charwoman, charwomen, chawbacon, clampdown, cordwains, coxswains, crackdown, downcasts, downscale, facedowns, fancywork, lancewood, snowpacks, snowscape, townscape, wahcondas, wainscots. | |
+5 letters: allowanced, allowances, callowness, candlewood, cankerworm, chairwoman, chairwomen, chawbacons, clampdowns, commonweal, cordwainer, cornerways, coxswained, crackdowns, downscaled, downscales, fancyworks, lancewoods, pitchwoman, scrubwoman, showcasing, snowcapped, snowscapes, townscapes, wainscoted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 57 41 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .--. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01010111 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O W A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0057 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3749573548 |
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