Gawain

Definition: Gawain

Gawain

Noun

1. (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table.

"Gawain" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a white hawk".

Date "Gawain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Gawain

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Gawain (g hard). (See Gauvaine .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Gawain

Synonym: Sir Gawain (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gawain

English words defined with "Gawain": Sir Gawain. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Gawain": Calidore ♦ Roman de Chevalier de Lyon. (references)

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Modern Usage: Gawain

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
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Commercial Usage: Gawain

Domain	Title
Books	CliffsNotes Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Living in the Light with Shakti Gawain (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Birtwistle - Gawain / Le Roux � Tomlinson � Angel � ROH Covent Garden � Howarth [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Gawain

"Gawain" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "Gawain" is used about 15 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)	53.33%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	40%	6	143,867
Adjective (general or positive)	6.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Gawain

"Gawain" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a white hawk".

The following table summarizes names related to "Gawain."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Gavin	Male	English	Gawain
Gawain	Male	English	N/A
Gavin	Male	Scottish	Gawain
Gavin	Male	Welsh	Gawain
Gawain	Male	Welsh	N/A
Gawain	Male	Welsh Mythology	N/A
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Expression: Gawain

Expression using "Gawain": Sir Gawain. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gawain

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
shakti gawain	40
sir gawain	25
gawain	15
gawain green knight sir summary	13
gawain and the green knight	9
gawain green night sir	3
gawain green knight pentangle sir	3
gawain sir tale	2
gawain green in knight sir symbolism	2
gawain harding	2
gawain green knight picture sir	2
gawain green knight romance sir	2
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Anagrams: Gawain

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-n-w"
	-1 letter: again, awing, wigan.
	-2 letters: agin, anga, gain, gnaw, wain, wing.
	-3 letters: aga, ain, ana, ani, awa, awn, gan, gin, nag, naw, wag, wan, wig, win.
	-4 letters: aa, ag, ai, an, aw, in, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-n-w"
	+1 letter: awaking, wanigan.
	+2 letters: awaiting, awarding, parawing, wanigans, wannigan.
	+3 letters: asswaging, awakening, lawmaking, parawings, reawaking, wannigans, wayfaring, waylaying.
	+4 letters: highwayman, jaywalking, lawmakings, warranting, wassailing.
	+5 letters: allowancing, antiwhaling, backwashing, cakewalking, causewaying, chainsawing, graniteware, lawbreaking, misawarding, racewalking, rainwashing, reawakening, tomahawking, watchmaking.
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