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HUNGERFORD

Specialty Definition: Hungerford

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Hungerford is a dormitory town in Berkshire, England, between Marlborough and Newbury. It is known for the Hungerford Massacre, which was considered all the more remarkable for occuring in a sleepy village such as this.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hungerford."

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Date "HUNGERFORD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)


Crosswords: HUNGERFORD

Specialty definitions using "HUNGERFORD": Red Cap. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HUNGERFORD

DomainTitle

References

  • John Lewis of Hungerford plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Portal of Hungerford : the life of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Viscount Portal of Hungerford, KG, GCB, OM, DSO, MC (reference)

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

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Usage Frequency: HUNGERFORD

"HUNGERFORD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.77% of the time. "HUNGERFORD" is used about 81 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)98.77%8037,112
Noun (singular)1.23%1339,140
                    Total100.00%81N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: HUNGERFORD

The following table summarizes the usage of "HUNGERFORD" 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
HungerfordLast name1,0008,473
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: HUNGERFORD

CountryName
United Kingdom

John Lewis of Hungerford plc

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HUNGERFORD

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

charlotte hospital hungerford

46

hungerford

21

charlotte hungerford

13

hungerford kingdom united

5

hungerford terry

4

hungerford massacre

4

hungerford j smith

4

hungerford tx

3

bridge hungerford

3

charlotte ct hospital hungerford torrington

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

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Anagrams: HUNGERFORD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-g-h-n-o-r-r-u"

-2 letters: frondeur, grounder, reground, unforged.

-3 letters: forerun, founder, guerdon, hounder, refound, rondure, roughed, roughen, rougher, rounder, undergo.

-4 letters: dehorn, dourer, drogue, droner, enduro, enough, fonder, fondue, forged, forger, fuhrer, furore, furred, gerund, gorhen, gourde, ground, horned, hunger, nudger, ordure, refund, rehung, rogued, rouged, undoer.

-5 letters: defog, dough, drone, erugo, foehn, fondu, forge, found, frond, frore.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HUNGERFORD


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

48 55 4E 47 45 52 46 4F 52 44

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)

01001000 01010101 01001110 01000111 01000101 01010010 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#85 &#78 &#71 &#69 &#82 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0055 004E 0047 0045 0052 0046 004F 0052 0044

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

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

42554841395240495238

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Names: Company Usage
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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