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Definitions: Laconia |
LaconiaNoun1. An ancient region of southern Greece in the southeastern Peloponnesus; dominated by Sparta. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Laconia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Crosswords: Laconia |
| English words defined with "Laconia": Lacedaemonian, Laconian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Laconia": 47135. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The English word laconic is derived from the name of the region by analogy - to speak in a concise way, as the Spartans were reputed by the Athenians to do.
Laconia is also a city in New Hampshire, United States of America: see Laconia, New Hampshire.
Laconia was the Cunard liner involved in the Laconia incident during World War II. The ship was torpedoed on September 12, 1941 by a U-boat which rescued the survivors but was itself attacked by an American aircraft four days later whilst towing lifeboats filled with people and prominently displaying a Red Cross flag. The German admiralty subsequently issued the "Laconia order" which forbade U-boats from helping the survivors of ships which they had sunk, and for which Admiral Karl Dönitz was controversially prosecuted at the end of the war.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laconia."
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| "Laconia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Laconia" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Laconia, IN (town, FIPS 40644) 2. Laconia, NH (city, FIPS 40180) |
| 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 |
laconia bike week | 1,137 |
laconia nh | 1,093 |
laconia | 717 |
laconia citizen | 229 |
laconia new hampshire | 111 |
laconia motorcycle week | 75 |
2003 laconia | 44 |
laconia hotel | 35 |
citizen evening laconia | 31 |
laconia motorcycle | 29 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Laconia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | Λακωνία. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aconialay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Laconia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allazonia, Gakonya, Lasinio, Lecanora, Licona, Lokonga, lucania, Lukanima, Lukoji, Lukowiak, Paeonia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: alnico, canola, oilcan. | |
-2 letters: aloin, canal, coala, colin, lanai, liana, linac, nicol. | |
-3 letters: alan, anal, anil, anoa, cain, calo, ciao, cion, clan, clon, coal, coil, coin, cola, coni, icon, laic, lain, lino, lion, loan, loca, loci, loin, nail, naoi, noil. | |
-4 letters: aal, ail, ain, ala, ana, ani, can, col, con, ion, lac, lin, nil, oca, oil. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, al, an, in, la, li, lo, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: anabolic, analogic, diaconal. | |
+2 letters: acylation, allantoic, botanical, canonical, cantorial, chalazion, cobalamin, factional, lactation, nonracial, placation. | |
+3 letters: actionable, actionably, acylations, allocating, allocation, ammoniacal, anagogical, analogical, anatomical, anodically, antisocial, baldachino, botanicals, calamondin, cannabinol, canonicals, caracoling, cataloging, chalazions, citational, cobalamins, demoniacal, escalation, fractional, glaciation, laceration, lactations, locational, maculation, monarchial, noncapital, nyctalopia, occasional, placations, simoniacal, tractional, vocational. | |
+4 letters: accessional, acclamation, acclimation, acetylation, acidulation, aeronomical, affectional, alcyonarian, algolagniac, allocations, allowancing, altercation, anacoluthic, anecdotical, anthropical, antialcohol, antilogical, application, archegonial, ascensional, autoclaving, avocational, baldachinos, botanically, calamondins, calcination, calculation, calibration, calumniator, calypsonian, cancelation, cannabinols, canonically, caracolling, carpogonial, cataloguing, chancroidal, charcoaling, clairvoyant, coagulating, coagulation, complainant, complaisant, containable, coplanarity, declamation, declaration, defalcation, educational, egomaniacal, ejaculation, endocardial, escalations, exclamation, factionally, glaciations, intraocular, lacerations, laciniation, laconically, lacrimation, lactational, laicization, maculations, malefaction, megalomanic, melancholia, microfaunal, monarchical, monochasial, nematocidal, nonanalytic, noncapitals, nonracially, nyctalopias, organically, pantropical, postcranial, rapscallion, reclamation, redactional, sacculation, thrasonical, uncanonical, vacillation, vacuolation. | |
+5 letters: acceleration, acclamations, acclimations, accumulation, acetylations, acidulations, aeronautical, alcyonarians, algolagniacs, altercations, anagogically, analogically, anatomically, anecdotalism, anecdotalist, anthological, anticolonial, antisocially, applications, articulation, astronomical, auscultation, bibliomaniac, calcinations, calculations, calibrations, calumniation, calumniators, calypsonians, camouflaging, canalization, cancelations, cancellation, cantillation, capitulation, catabolizing, cationically, clairvoyance, clairvoyants, clapboarding, claudication, coagulations, complainants, complaisance, concanavalin, craniofacial, craniosacral, cytochalasin, decalcomania, declamations, declarations, deescalation, defalcations, deglaciation, demoniacally, diagnostical, diatonically, disallowance, disclamation, ejaculations, emasculation, excavational, exclamations, facilitation, factionalism, focalization, fractionally, gallinaceous, genealogical, geobotanical, hallucinator, harmonically, incomparable, incomparably, indicational, intercoastal, invocational, kleptomaniac, laciniations, lacrimations, laicizations, localization, locationally, malefactions, megalomaniac, melancholiac, melancholias, microanalyst, microbalance, monastically, monomaniacal, narcotically, neoclassical, nonbacterial, nonclassical, nonfinancial, nonpractical, occasionally, occupational, outbalancing, paleobotanic, paranoically, placentation, planographic, plastocyanin, platonically, postvaccinal, proclamation, pyromaniacal, rapscallions, reallocating, reallocation, reclamations, recreational, reescalation, romantically, sacculations, sanctionable, sardonically, simoniacally, speciational, vacationland, vacillations, vacuolations, vocalization, vocationally, volcanically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 6F 6E 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. --- -. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c o n i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 006F 006E 0069 0061 |
| 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)46676981807567 |
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