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Date "ELGIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | ELGIN, Lord, the man who rolled the Elgin marbles from Greece to the British Museum. Also had something to do with the interior of watches. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Crosswords: ELGIN |
| English words defined with "ELGIN": Elgin marbles ♦ Statuary marble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ELGIN": Half-done. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Devils at the Elgin (1974) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | S. Apollonia V.M. / Lith. u. Kunsthandlung von Gebr. Elgin in Luzern. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Elgin Six ... reporting road conditions for benefit of tourists to all national associations, clubs & newspapers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | James Bruce Elgin, 8th Earl of Elgin, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to right. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Elgin watch factory. Elgin, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Front porch. Elgin, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Residential street. Elgin, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Closed home. Elgin, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | House in Elgin, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Elgin National Watch Co. plant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Camp Deneen, Elgin, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "ELGIN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ELGIN" is used about 106 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% | 106 | 31,637 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ELGIN" 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 |
| Elgin | Last name | 1,000 | 9,034 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Elgin, AZ 2. Elgin, IA (city, FIPS 24645) 3. Elgin, IL (city, FIPS 23074) 4. Elgin, KS (city, FIPS 20125) 5. Elgin, MN (city, FIPS 18530) 6. Elgin, ND (city, FIPS 23020) 7. Elgin, NE (city, FIPS 14730) 8. Elgin, OH (village, FIPS 24794) 9. Elgin, OK (town, FIPS 23450) 10. Elgin, OR (city, FIPS 22550) 11. Elgin, PA (borough, FIPS 22960) 12. Elgin, SC (CDP, FIPS 23290) 13. Elgin, SC (town, FIPS 23245) 14. Elgin, TX (city, FIPS 23044) |
Expressions using "ELGIN": Elgin marbles ♦ South Elgin. Additional references. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
elgin illinois | 1,118 | elgin south carolina | 26 |
elgin community college | 371 | elgin oregon | 23 |
elgin | 325 | lord elgin | 23 |
elgin watch | 220 | lord elgin hotel | 21 |
south elgin illinois | 165 | city of elgin illinois | 21 |
port elgin | 117 | elgin watch company | 21 |
courier elgin news | 95 | courier elgin newspaper | 21 |
elgin texas | 90 | elgin outboard motor | 20 |
elgin pocket watch | 69 | elgin newspaper | 19 |
port elgin ontario | 66 | casino elgin | 19 |
elgin marbles | 63 | cam elgin | 18 |
elgin city | 57 | elgin minnesota | 18 |
courier elgin | 54 | elgin lumpkin | 17 |
contact elgin | 40 | county elgin | 17 |
elgin isd | 37 | south elgin | 17 |
elgin baylor | 36 | lord elgin hotel ottawa | 16 |
elgin sweeper | 31 | complex elgin sports | 16 |
elgin high school | 30 | clock elgin | 15 |
elgin theater | 26 | elgin watch wrist | 15 |
air base elgin force | 26 | elgin fox theater | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ELGIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | ελγίνεια μάρμαρα (elgin marbles). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | elginay Eilginn. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ELGIN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Celgene, Eblin, egin, Egli, Eglon, Elagen, Elbin, Elgie, Elgol, Eligio, elrin, elwin, Enghin, Melgund. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ingle. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: gien, glen, lien, line, ling. | |
-2 letters: eng, gel, gen, gie, gin, leg, lei, lie, lin, nil. | |
-3 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: dingle, eloign, engild, genial, gentil, ingles, jingle, leggin, legion, linage, linger, mingle, niggle, single, tingle. | |
+2 letters: aligned, aligner, aneling, angelic, anglice, atingle, belling, belting, belying, blueing, ceiling, celling, cleping, clewing, clinged, clinger, clueing, cringle, dealing, deleing, delving, dingles, dueling, eanling, elating, eliding, eloigns, eloping, eluding, eluting, engilds, english, engrail, erlking, exiling, feeling, felling, felting, finagle, fleeing, flexing, fleying, flinger, fueling, galenic, gallein, gelatin, gelding, gelling, geminal, genital, gentile, gillnet, gingeli, gingely, glenoid, gleying, glinted, glisten, glueing, glycine, gremlin, guyline, healing, heeling, heiling, helling, helming, helping, helving, ignoble, indulge, jelling, jingled, jingler, jingles, keeling, kegling, kelping, kinglet, leading, leafing, leaking, leaning, leaping, leasing, leaving, leching, leering, legging, leggins, legions, legumin, lemming, lending, lensing, lentigo, letting, levying, lighten, lignite, linages, lineage, lingers, lingier, lingoes, linguae, linkage, longies, lugeing, melding, melling, melting, mewling, mingled, mingler, mingles, nargile, neglige, niggled, niggler, niggles, pealing, peeling, pelting, realign, reeling, reginal, relying, ringlet, sealing, seeling, selfing, selling, shingle, singled, singles, singlet, slewing, slinger, sniggle, swingle, telling, tingled, tingler, tingles, unagile, vealing, veiling, welding, welling, welting, winglet, yealing, yelling, yelping. | |
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