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Date "HOLMAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Holman (Lieutenant James). The blind traveller (1787-1857). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HOLMAN |
| Specialty definitions using "HOLMAN": Holman Airleg ♦ The Blind. (references) |
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Screenplays | Holman, I'll have you shot as a mutineer! (The Sand Pebbles; writing credit: Richard McKenna; Robert Anderson) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Holman to Dana: "Et tu, Brute" (And you, you brute). Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Looking toward center of town across arroyo. Holman, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Spanish-American farm at Holman, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Old church at Holman, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Wheat field on Spanish-American farm near Holman, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | McQuiston, J.H., Paddock, C.D., Holman, R.C., & Childs, J.E. (1999). The human ehrlichioses in the United States. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "HOLMAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.26% of the time. "HOLMAN" is used about 107 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) | 96.26% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.74% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HOLMAN" 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 |
| Holman | Last name | 15,000 | 785 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "HOLMAN": holman Hunt ♦ William Holman Hunt. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "HOLMAN": Compair-holman. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "HOLMAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Holman's operation (Holman operation), Holmans operation (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | operatie van Holman (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Holmanin torakoplastia (Holman operation), aortan istmusstenoosin resektio Holmanin tapaan (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | opération de Holman (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Holman-Operation (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εγχείρηση Holman (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | operazione di HOLMAN (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olmanhay operação de Holman (Holman operation). (various references) operación de Holman (Holman operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"HOLMAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dhlomo, Haiman, Halaman, Halban, Halsmann, Hlobane, Hoemann, Hogmen, Holah, Holdana, Holga, Holkam, Holtam, Holtan, Holtman, Horman, Hovmand, Hullmann, lohman, Rollman, Thalmann, Uhlman, Uhlmann. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-m-n-o" | |
-2 letters: halm, halo, holm, loam, loan, mano, moan, mola, noma. | |
-3 letters: ham, hao, hon, lam, man, mho, moa, mol, mon, nah, nam, noh, nom, ohm. | |
-4 letters: ah, al, am, an, ha, hm, ho, la, lo, ma, mo, na, no, oh, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: manhole. | |
+2 letters: handloom, homeland, hormonal, hotelman, manholes, methanol, monachal. | |
+3 letters: chameleon, handlooms, homelands, malathion, methanols, monarchal, nemophila, schoolman. | |
+4 letters: chameleons, chloramine, handsomely, hormonally, hypolimnia, malathions, melancholy, monarchial, motherland, nemophilas, nonthermal, phenomenal, pheromonal, womanishly. | |
+5 letters: abolishment, chameleonic, chloramines, collenchyma, hematoxylin, homonuclear, hooliganism, humiliation, melancholia, melancholic, melanophore, mentholated, methylation, monarchical, monochasial, mothballing, motherlands, nonchemical, nonhormonal, orthonormal, phantomlike, trichomonal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 4C 4D 41 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- .-.. -- .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01001100 01001101 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O L M A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 004C 004D 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)424946473548 |
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