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Maiduguri

Definition: Maiduguri

Maiduguri

Noun

1. A city in northeastern Nigeria; an agricultural trading center.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Maiduguri

Synonym: Yerwa-Maiduguri (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Maiduguri

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Chad

The alternative route is through Nigeria's Maiduguri rail junction which connects to Port Harcourt or Lagos. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Maiduguri

"Maiduguri" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maiduguri" 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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Expression: Maiduguri

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Maiduguri": Yerwa-Maiduguri.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Maiduguri

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

maiduguri nigeria

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Maiduguri

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

Pig Latin

  

aidugurimay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Maiduguri

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-i-m-r-u-u"

-3 letters: midair, radium.

-4 letters: augur, aurum, durum, guard, mudra, murid, radii, rigid.

-5 letters: amid, amir, arid, arum, drag, dram, drug, drum, duma, dura, gadi, gaud, gaum, gaur, gird, grad, gram, grid, grim, grum, guar, guid, guru, imid, irid, magi, maid, mair, maud, midi, miri, mura, ragi, raid, rami, ruga.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Maiduguri


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

4D 61 69 64 75 67 75 72 69

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)

01001101 01100001 01101001 01100100 01110101 01100111 01110101 01110010 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#105 &#100 &#117 &#103 &#117 &#114 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0069 0064 0075 0067 0075 0072 0069

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

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

476775708773878475

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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