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Definitions: Macon |
MaconNoun1. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta. 2. Fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Macon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Literature | Macon Mahomet, Mahoun, or Mahound. "Praised (quoth he) be Macon whom we serve." Fairfax: Tasso, xii. 10. Macon. A poetical and romance name of Mecca, the birthplace of Mahomet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: MaconSynonym: maconnais (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Macon |
| Specialty definitions using "Macon": 27551 ♦ 31204, 31210, 31211, 39341 ♦ 62544, 63552. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Macon County Line (1974) Return to Macon County (1975) | |
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![]() | Picking okra at day break on the Miller farm near Macon, MS.Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Judy M iller picking okra at day break on the Miller farm near Macon, MS.Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Mr Willie Little picking okra at day break near Macon, MS.Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Mrs. Miller picks okra on the Miller farm near Macon, MS.Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Ben Burkett, Executive Director of the Mississippi Ass'n of Cooperatives accepts a shipment of okra from the Beat 4 Co-op in Macon, MS.Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Andrew Miller picks okra on the Miller farm near Macon, MS.Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Mrs Miller picks okra on the Miller Farm near Macon, MS.Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Mr. Andrew Miller picks okra on the Miller farm near Macon, MS. The Millers grow Okra for the Beat 4 Coop of which they are members.Credit: USDA. |
![]() | U.S. Army Air Forces. Convalescent Hospital, Cochran Field, Macon, Ga. : Aerial view.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| "Macon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Macon" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Macon" 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 |
| Macon | Last name | 4,000 | 2,995 |
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1. Macon, GA (city, FIPS 49000) 2. Macon, IL (city, FIPS 45941) 3. Macon, MO (city, FIPS 45326) 4. Macon, MS (city, FIPS 44240) 5. Macon, NC (town, FIPS 40540) |
Expression using "Macon": Macon County. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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macon ga | 1,164 |
macon telegraph | 1,080 |
macon georgia | 344 |
macon state college | 222 |
macon | 222 |
circuit clerk county macon | 114 |
macon mo | 92 |
macon peach | 87 |
macon france | 73 |
randolph macon | 68 |
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| Language | Translations for "Macon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 梅肯. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aconmay.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Macon": macons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Macon": limacon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Macon": limacons. (additional references) | |
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"Macon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amicon, Iacono, Imacon, Mabon, macan, Maccunn, Macfoy, Machon, Macian, Maclou, Macnott, Macnow, Maconchy, Macoun, Mahorn, majon, Makueni, Mapcon, Marconda, Mashona, Massonde, mauon, Maxon, Mazon, Mccown, Mcloon, Mekon, Mgco, Michon, Miconia, Micou, Mikon, Mishcon, Mixon, Mosconi, Mosson, Mrcog, Muco, muscon, Mwco, Nacton. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Macon" (pronounced mā"kun) |
| 4 | -ā" k u n | awaken, bacon, forsaken, mistaken, reawaken, retaken, shaken, taken, unshaken, waken. |
| 3 | -k u n | beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, broken, chicken, darken, deacon, drunken, falcon, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, misspoken, outspoken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reckon, republican, second, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, spoken, stricken, sunken, thicken, token, unbroken, undertaken, unspoken, weaken, woken, zircon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: coma, mano, moan, noma. | |
-2 letters: cam, can, con, mac, man, moa, moc, mon, nam, nom, oca. | |
-3 letters: am, an, ma, mo, na, no, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: anomic, camion, cowman, macons, macron, manioc, mascon, socman. | |
+2 letters: acronym, ammonic, anosmic, camions, campion, campong, coaming, command, company, crampon, encomia, limacon, macrons, manioca, maniocs, mascons, masonic, minorca, monacid, monadic, monarch, nomadic, nomarch, romance, sockman, unmacho. | |
+3 letters: aconitum, acrimony, acromion, acronyms, amelcorn, ammoniac, amnionic, amniotic, anatomic, anoxemic, armonica, cameoing, campions, campongs, cardamon, caroming, chamfron, champion, choreman, cinnamon, coachman, coachmen, coamings, coenamor, coinmate, colorman, columnal, columnar, comaking, comanage, comedian, commando, commands, communal, complain, cornmeal, corpsman, coumarin, crampons, crampoon, daemonic, daimonic, demoniac, dormancy, flamenco, geomancy, gnomical, harmonic, laconism, limacons, macaroni, macaroon, mandioca, maniocas, marocain, minorcas, moccasin, monachal, monacids, monarchs, monarchy, monastic, monecian, monoacid, monocarp, monocrat, mooncalf, morainic, mordancy, nomarchs, nomarchy, normalcy, omniarch, romanced, romancer, romances, romantic, scammony, simoniac, stockman. | |
+4 letters: accompany, aconitums, acromions, acronymic, aeronomic, agronomic, amelcorns, ammoniacs, ammonitic, anchorman, anchormen, antimacho, antinomic, antonymic, armonicas, autonomic, cacodemon, cairngorm, campesino, carbamino, carcinoma, cardamons, carroming, catamount, chameleon, chamfrons, champions, charwoman, charwomen, cheongsam, chromatin, cinnamons, clamoring, clampdown, cobalamin, coenamors, cognomina, coinmates, comanaged, comanager, comanages, combatant, combating, comedians, commanded, commander, commandos, commensal, commonage, communard, companied, companies, companion, comparing, compendia, complains, complaint, compliant, condyloma, conformal, contagium, contumacy, copayment, cormorant, cornerman, cornmeals, cosmonaut, coumarins, crampoons, cremation, cymophane, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, dominical, egomaniac, encomiast, encompass, flamencos, geomancer, geomantic, harmonica, harmonics, hypomanic, impaction, insomniac, laconisms, macaronic, macaronis, macaroons, macedoine, macintosh, magnifico, mandiocas, manicotti, manticore, marocains, melanotic, moccasins, molluscan, monachism, monadnock, monarchal, monarchic, monastics, monatomic, monoacids, monobasic, monocarps, monocracy, monocrats, monocular, monodical, monogamic, moonfaced, moonscape, mortician, mucronate, nonatomic, noncampus, noncombat, nonimpact, omniarchs, onomastic, panoramic, policeman, pyromancy, romancers, romancing, romantics, schoolman, simoniacs, taxonomic, volcanism. | |
+5 letters: acrimonies, actomyosin, ammoniacal, anamorphic, anatomical, androecium, antidromic, ascogonium, astronomic, avouchment, backgammon, biodynamic, cacodemons, cairngorms, cajolement, calamondin, calmodulin, calumnious, camerlengo, campesinos, campground, cankerworm, cantonment, carcinomas, carmagnole, catamounts, ceremonial, chairwoman, chairwomen, chameleons, chamoising, champignon, championed, cheongsams, chiromancy, chloramine, chromaffin, chromatins, chromonema, chronogram, cinemagoer, clamouring, clampdowns, coadmiring, coassuming, coatimundi, cobalamins, cochairman, cochairmen, cochampion, codominant, coenamored, cognominal, colemanite, comanagers, comanaging, combatants, combatting, combinable, commandant, commandeer, commanders, commandery, commanding, commandoes, commensals, commentary, commentate, commonages, commonalty, commonweal, communally, communards, compacting, compaction, companions, companying, comparison, comparting, compassing, compassion, compensate, complacent, complained, complainer, complaints, compliance, compliancy, condylomas, confirmand, consumable, consummate, copayments, cormorants, coromandel, cosmonauts, councilman, counterman, countryman, craniotomy, cremations, cumulation, cymophanes, daunomycin, decimation, demoniacal, dicoumarin, documental, dominances, dormancies, economical, egomaniacs, emaciation, encomiasts, enharmonic, geomancers, geomancies, harmonicas, hemocyanin, hydromancy, iconoclasm, impactions, importance, importancy, inharmonic, insomniacs, macaronics, macaronies, macedoines, maceration, machinator, mackintosh, maculation, magnificos, malcontent, mammocking, manometric, manticores, maraschino, mascarpone, mastodonic, matronymic, medication, megaphonic, melancholy, melanocyte, mendacious, microfauna, microtonal, miscaption, monachisms, monadnocks, monarchial, monarchies, monarchism, monarchist, monoacidic, monocarpic, monochasia, monoclonal, monocratic, monoculars, monomaniac, monstrance, mooncalves, moonscapes, mordancies, morganatic, morphactin, morticians, mosaicking, mycetozoan, necromancy, nematocide, nematocyst, nomarchies, nonmedical, nonmusical, normalcies, nosocomial, oceanarium, onomastics, organicism, organismic, pantomimic, patronymic, phonematic, pitchwoman, pyromaniac, sanctimony, scammonies, scrubwoman, simoniacal, solacement, stomaching, taphonomic, tomcatting, undogmatic, unromantic, volcanisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01001101 01100001 01100011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 006F 006E |
| 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)4767698180 |
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