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Macon

Definitions: Macon

Macon

Noun

1. 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)



Specialty Definitions: Macon

DomainDefinitions

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.

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

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Specialty Definition: Macon

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Macon is the name of several places in the United States of America and of one in France:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Macon."

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Synonym: Macon

Synonym: maconnais (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Macon

Specialty definitions using "Macon": 2755131204, 31210, 31211, 3934162544, 63552. (references)

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Modern Usage: Macon

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Macon County Line (1974)

Return to Macon County (1975)

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Commercial Usage: Macon

DomainTitle

Books

  • All in a Day's Work : Historic General Stores of Macon and Surrounding Counties of North Carolina (reference)

  • MacOn, Georgia's Central City: An Illustrated History (reference)

  • Marriages and Deaths, Accidents, Duels and Runaways, etc., Compiled from The Weekly Georgia Telegraph, Macon, Georgia, 1850-1853 (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

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Image Slideshow: Macon

Photos:
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Photo Album: Macon

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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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Usage Frequency: Macon

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3063,341

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Macon

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MaconLast name4,0002,995
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Macon


1. Macon, GA (city, FIPS 49000)
Location: 32.83675 N, 83.65684 W
Population (1990): 106612 (45499 housing units)
Area: 124.0 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 31204, 31210, 31211
Country: USA


2. Macon, IL (city, FIPS 45941)
Location: 39.70895 N, 88.99937 W
Population (1990): 1282 (489 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 62544
Country: USA


3. Macon, MO (city, FIPS 45326)
Location: 39.73874 N, 92.47053 W
Population (1990): 5571 (2609 housing units)
Area: 13.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 63552
Country: USA


4. Macon, MS (city, FIPS 44240)
Location: 33.11492 N, 88.56120 W
Population (1990): 2256 (932 housing units)
Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 39341
Country: USA


5. Macon, NC (town, FIPS 40540)
Location: 36.43901 N, 78.08467 W
Population (1990): 154 (69 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 27551
Country: USA

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Expression: Macon

Expression using "Macon": Macon County. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Macon

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

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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Modern Translations: Macon

Language Translations for "Macon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

梅肯. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aconmay.(various references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Macon

Derivations

Words beginning with "Macon": macons. (additional references)

Words ending with "Macon": limacon. (additional references)

Words containing "Macon": limacons. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Macon"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Macon" (pronounced mā"kun)
4-ā" k u nawaken, bacon, forsaken, mistaken, reawaken, retaken, shaken, taken, unshaken, waken.
3-k u nbeacon, 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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Anagrams: Macon

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Macon


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

4D 61 63 6F 6E

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)

--    .-    -.-.    ---    -.

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

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

01001101 01100001 01100011 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#99 &#111 &#110

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)

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

4767698180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Cities
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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