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HOUYHNHNMS

"HOUYHNHNMS" is a plural of: houyhnhnm.

Date "HOUYHNHNMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Specialty Definition: HOUYHNHNMS

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Literature

Houyhnhnms (whinhims). A race of horses endowed with reason, who bear rule over a race of men. Gulliver, in his Travels, tells us what he "saw" among them. (Swift.)
"Nay, would kind Jove my organ so dispose
To hymn harmonious Houyhnhnms through the
Nose,
I'd call thee Houhnhnm, that high-sounding
Name;
Thy children's noses all should twang the same."
Pope. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: HOUYHNHNMS

English words defined with "HOUYHNHNMS": yahoo. (references)

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Use in Literature: HOUYHNHNMS

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

But if these censurers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the Houyhnhnms, they would soon change their opinion.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: HOUYHNHNMS

"HOUYHNHNMS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HOUYHNHNMS" is used about 2 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)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HOUYHNHNMS

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

gullivers houyhnhnms in travel

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: HOUYHNHNMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-h-h-m-n-n-o-s-u-y"

-5 letters: hymns, hyson, mousy, muons, mushy, nouns, shoyu, sonny, sunny.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HOUYHNHNMS


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

48 4F 55 59 48 4E 48 4E 4D 53

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)

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

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

01001000 01001111 01010101 01011001 01001000 01001110 01001000 01001110 01001101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#85 &#89 &#72 &#78 &#72 &#78 &#77 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 0055 0059 0048 004E 0048 004E 004D 0053

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

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

42495559424842484753

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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