DUNSTABLE

Date "DUNSTABLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Dunstable Bailey, as if he actually believed it, gives the etymology of this word Dun's stable; adding Duns or "Dunus was a robber in the reign of Henry I., who made it dangerous for travellers to pass that way." (Dunes or duns tavell, our table - i.e. the table-land or flat of the hills.) Downright Dunstable. (See Downright.) Plain as the road to Dunstable, or, as Shakespeare says, "Plain as way to parish church." The road leading to Dunstable is the confluence of many leading to London, but the play is on the word dunce. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Dunstable is a town in the county of Bedfordshire. It lies on the ancient Roman road of Watling Street, which is the modern A5 trunk road. In Roman times its name was Dvrocobrivis. Dunstable was the site of an Eleanor cross. Geographically Dunstable lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, these spurs form several steep chalk escarpments most noticable when approaching Dunstable from the north.

Historically Dunstable was a significant market town, but its importance has diminished as the neighbouring town of Luton grew. Nowadays much of the work in Dunstable is light engineering providing automobile parts for the Vauxhall plant in Luton, but with the closure of this plant Dunstable is following Luton into decline.

Places of interest in and around Dunstable include:

Dunstable Downs, a chalk escarpment to the west of the town, with stunning views to the north, and a popular site for kite flying, paragliding, and conventional gliding
Dunstable Priory, the main church in Dunstable, dating back to the Norman Conquest.
Whipsnade Wildlife Park, an open range zoo.

Crosswords: DUNSTABLE

Specialty definitions using "DUNSTABLE": Charing Cross ♦ Downright Dunstable. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Dunstable with the Priory, 1100-1550 (reference) (more book examples)
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"DUNSTABLE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DUNSTABLE" is used about 85 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%	85	35,870

1. Dunstable, MA
Zip Code(s): 01827
Country: USA

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Expression: DUNSTABLE

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "DUNSTABLE": Luton-dunstable.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DUNSTABLE

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
dunstable ma	211
dunstable kingdom united	21
dunstable	14
dunstable massachusetts	5
john dunstable	5
dunstable groton	4
dunstable hospital luton	4
college dunstable	4
dunstable groton school	3
dunstable groton high school	3
car dunstable luton part	2
dunstable groton high regional school	2
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Anagrams: DUNSTABLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-n-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: abluents, blandest, sublated, unsalted, unstable.
	-2 letters: abluent, abluted, auldest, baldest, belauds, blasted, blunted, bundles, bustled, butanes, dentals, eluants, lunated, nebulas, saluted, slanted, stabled, subdean, sublate, subtend, sunbelt, tunable, unbased, unbated, unbelts, unblest, unlades, unleads, unsated.
	-3 letters: ablest, absent, abused, adults, basted, beauts, belaud, bestud, blades, bleats, blends, bluest, bluets, blunts, bundle, bundts, bunted.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-l-n-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: bladdernuts, roundtables, unballasted.
	+3 letters: discountable, indisputable, undisputable.
	+4 letters: battlegrounds, somnambulated, subadolescent, subordinately, unestablished.
	+5 letters: inaudibilities, polybutadienes, rediscountable, subadolescents, understandable, understandably, undesirability, unpredictables.
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