HUNTINGDON

Date "HUNTINGDON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Huntingdon (called by the Saxons Huntantun, and in Doomsday Hunter's dune) appears to have derived its name from its situation in a tract of country which was anciently an extensive forest abounding with deer, and well suited for the purposes of the chase. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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This article is about the English town of Huntingdon. For other uses see Huntingdon (disambiguation)

Huntingdon is a town in the historic County Huntingdonshire of the region of East Anglia, England. It is traditionally the county town of Huntingdonshire, and is part of both the administrative county and ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire.

The town lies on the River Great Ouse, not far from the market town of St Neots.

Huntingdon has been represented by two exceptionally famous members of parliament: Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century and John Major in the 20th.

Synonyms: HUNTINGDON

Synonyms by domain: Huntingdon Life Sciences (medicine), Huntingdon Research Centre Ltd (engineering & technology).

Crosswords: HUNTINGDON

Specialty definitions using "HUNTINGDON": Half-faced Groat, Huntingdon Sturgeon ♦ Knight of the Couching Leopard. (references)

Domain	Title
References	Huntingdon Life Sciences Group Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Voice of the Vanishing Minority: Robert Sellar and the Huntingdon Gleaner, 18631919 (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Huntingdon Gleaner (reference) (more periodical examples)
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	Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. Credit: Library of Congress.		Baseball game, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Watching medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.		Medicine show audience, Huntingdon, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Swimming pool created by CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) dam, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.		Huntingdon, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Deer hunter. Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.		Distribution of surplus commodities near the railroad station. Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Huntingdon, Pa., 1913. Credit: Library of Congress.		S. Huntingdon [sic] / drawn from the life by Du Simitier in Philadelphia ; engraved by B.L. Prevost at Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	Henry of Huntingdon identifies him with the King Coel who first built walls round Colchester, which was named after him.
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"HUNTINGDON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HUNTINGDON" is used about 211 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)	100%	211	20,883

Country	Name
United Kingdom	Huntingdon Life Sciences Group Plc
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1. Huntingdon, PA (borough, FIPS 36368)
Location: 40.49652 N, 78.01031 W
Population (1990): 6843 (2715 housing units)
Area: 8.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 16652
Country: USA

2. Huntingdon, TN (town, FIPS 36580)
Location: 36.00854 N, 88.41200 W
Population (1990): 4180 (1790 housing units)
Area: 19.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 38344
Country: USA

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Expression: HUNTINGDON

Expressions using "HUNTINGDON": Huntingdon County ♦ Huntingdon elm ♦ Huntingdon Valle ♦ Huntingdon willow ♦ North Huntingdon. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "HUNTINGDON": huntingdon-based.
	Ending with "HUNTINGDON": Blythe-huntingdon.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HUNTINGDON

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
huntingdon valley pa	383	16th earl huntingdon	5
huntingdon pa	166	bank huntingdon valley	5
huntingdon college	64	center huntingdon learning	5
huntingdon	56	hotel huntingdon	5
huntingdon tn	53	huntingdon racecourse	5
huntingdon united kingdom	29	county humane huntingdon society	5
huntingdon life science	18	area district huntingdon school	4
daily huntingdon news	13	huntingdon england	4
huntingdon pennsylvania	13	huntingdon valley pennsylvania	4
huntingdon valley country club	13	audi huntingdon valley	3
huntingdon quebec	13	abington huntingdon pa	3
pa huntingdon county	12	club huntingdon kennel valley	3
huntingdon county	11	earl huntingdon	3
north huntingdon pa	11	co huntingdon pa	3
huntingdon county pennsylvania	9	huntingdon uk	3
huntingdon valley	9	animal cruelty huntingdon stop	3
north huntingdon	9	cambridgeshire co.uk contact huntingdon	3
huntingdon tennessee	8	huntingdon newspaper pa	3
daily huntingdon news pa	6	huntingdon prison	3
huntingdon north township	5	huntingdon high school	3
		ramada huntingdon manor	3
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Anagrams: HUNTINGDON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-h-i-n-n-n-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: hounding.
	-3 letters: donning, dunning, dunting, hindgut, hunting, nothing, thouing, tunning, undoing.
	-4 letters: doting, dought, guidon, hognut, honing, noting, nought, outing, toning, tuning.
	-5 letters: dhoti, dhuti, dight, dingo, doing, donut, dough, hound, ingot, night, ninon, ninth, niton, ohing, ought, thing, thong, tigon, tondi, tough, ungot, union.
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