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GARDON

Definition: GARDON

GARDON

Noun

1. A European cyprinoid fish; the id.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GARDON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Crosswords: GARDON

Non-English Usage: "GARDON" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (roach).

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Name Usage Frequency: GARDON

The following table summarizes the usage of "GARDON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GardonLast name17047,346
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GARDON

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

gardon

9

gardon savage

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GARDON

Language Translations for "gardon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ardongay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "GARDON"

Words rhyming with "GARDON" (pronounced 'Gar"don'): Abaddon, Acotyledon, Bandon, boustrophedon, Burdon, Cordon, Corindon, Cotyledon, Croydon, Dicotyledon, Fondon, Guidon, Hagdon, Jurdon, London, Lycoperdon, monocotyledon, Polycotyledon, Reguerdon, Sindon, Siredon, Skaddon, tendon. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GARDON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dragon.

Words within the letters "a-d-g-n-o-r"

-1 letter: adorn, argon, donga, gonad, grand, groan, orang, organ, radon.

-2 letters: agon, dago, dang, darn, dona, dong, drag, gnar, goad, grad, gran, nard, orad, rand, rang, road, roan.

-3 letters: ado, ago, and, dag, dog, don, dor, gad, gan, gar, goa, god, gor, nag, nod, nog, nor, oar, ora, rad, rag, ran, rod.

-4 letters: ad, ag, an, ar, do, go, na, no, od, on, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: adoring, aground, dragons, dragoon, gadroon, goldarn, gormand, groaned, organdy.

 

+2 letters: adorning, androgen, boarding, dognaper, dragoman, dragomen, dragonet, dragoons, gadroons, goldarns, gormands, gourmand, grandson, hoarding, jargoned, largando, ondogram, organdie, radioing, renegado, rigadoon, rigaudon.

 

+3 letters: according, adoringly, adsorbing, affording, androgens, androgyne, androgyny, begroaned, boardings, brocading, clangored, corrading, dangerous, dogearing, dognapers, dognapper, downgrade, downrange, dragomans, dragonets, dragonfly, dragonish, dragooned, gadrooned, girandole, godparent, goosander, gourmands, gradation, grandiose, grandioso, grandsons, granitoid, hoardings, indagator, nongraded, noseguard, ondograms, orangeade, ordaining, organdies, organised, organized, outdaring, outranged, paragoned, pardoning, parodying, reloading, renegados, rigadoons, rigaudons, sangfroid, signboard.

 

+4 letters: adjourning, allargando, androgenic, androgynes, background, bombarding, broadening, campground, clangoured, coadmiring, corrigenda, cradlesong, decorating, dendrogram, denigrator, dermatogen, derogating, derogation, designator, dognappers, downgraded, downgrades, dragonhead, dragooning, encouraged, fairground, foredating, forwarding, gadrooning, garrisoned, gasconader, girandoles, goaltender, godparents, goosanders, gormandise, gormandize, gradations, graduation, groundmass, groundsman, gynandrous, headstrong, indagators, jaguarondi, jargonized, jeoparding, longhaired, mandragora, moderating, monogramed, montagnard, mordanting, nonreading, noseguards, orangeades, orangewood, originated, outdrawing, outreading, outtrading, overdaring, overlading, playground, pollarding, poniarding, propaganda, radiogenic, ramrodding, readopting, readorning, reboarding, renegadoes, sandgrouse, sangfroids, signboards, snapdragon, uphoarding.

 

+5 letters: aboveground, accordingly, aggradation, airdropping, androgynies, androgynous, backgrounds, beardtongue, becowarding, boomeranged, broadsiding, campgrounds, cardiogenic, congregated, copyreading, cradlesongs, dangerously, degradation, dendrograms, denigration, denigrators, denigratory, dermatogens, derogations, designators, designatory, disfavoring, disorganize, downgrading, dragonflies, dragonheads, dreadnought, endeavoring, fairgrounds, fingerboard, freeloading, gadroonings, gangsterdom, gasconaders, goaltenders, godforsaken, gormandised, gormandises, gormandized, gormandizer, gormandizes, gourmandise, gourmandism, gourmandize, gradational, graduations, grandiflora, grandiosely, grandiosity, grandmother, groundwater, handwrought, hardworking, hydrogenase, hydrogenate, invigorated, jaguarondis, keyboarding, mandragoras, monogrammed, monographed, montagnards, motorcading, nongraduate, orangewoods, outdragging, outdreaming, overdrawing, overgoading, overhanding, overloading, overmanaged, overtrading, playgrounds, preadopting, promenading, propagandas, railroading, randomizing, reordaining, reorganized, roadholding, ropedancing, sandgrouses, sloganeered, snapdragons, springboard, squadroning, unorganized, woodcarving, wrongheaded.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GARDON


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

47 41 52 44 4F 4E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    .-.    -..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 0052 0044 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

413552384948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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