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Definition: Montezuma |
MontezumaNoun1. Evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers; considered a link plant between families Bombacaceae and Sterculiaceae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Montezuma" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Crosswords: Montezuma |
| English words defined with "Montezuma": genus Montezuma ♦ Montezuma cypress, Montezuma II. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Montezuma": Mearn's montezuma quail, Montezuma's Realm. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Montezuma."
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Movie/TV Titles | Halls of Montezuma (1950) The Fall of Montezuma (1912) | |
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 | Mr. John Thomas and his daughter, Louise, working in their home vegetable gargen. Flint River Farms, an FSA project. Montezuma (vicinity), GA. May 1939. Credit: USDA. |  | Back hoe laying pipeline in Montezuma County, Colorado. Credit: USDA. |
 | Flint River Farms, an FSA project. A farmer cultivating a field with a team of mules. Montezuma (vicinity), GA. May 1939. Credit: USDA. |  | A family picking peas in their garden. Flint River Farms, an FSA project. Montezuma (vicinity), GA. May 1939. Credit: USDA. |
 | Montezuma Castle National Monument. Credit: NPS. |  | Chopping cotton near Montezuma, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rolling store which goes from door to door selling groceries, hardware, drygoods, drugs, and a variety of household and farm supplies. Near Montezuma, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Johnny's Hotel and post office in ghost mining town now coming to life because of defense needs. Montezuma, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mine recently opened up because of defense needs. In ghost mining town of Montezuma, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. Capitol frescoes. Cortez and Montezuma at Mexican temple. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Montezuma" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Montezuma" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Montezuma" 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 |
| Montezuma | Last name | 200 | 37,329 |
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1. Montezuma, CO (town, FIPS 51690) 2. Montezuma, GA (city, FIPS 52304) 3. Montezuma, IA (city, FIPS 53490) 4. Montezuma, IN (town, FIPS 50652) 5. Montezuma, KS (city, FIPS 47875) 6. Montezuma, NM 7. Montezuma, OH (village, FIPS 51674) 8. Montezuma, VA |
Expressions using "Montezuma": genus Montezuma ♦ Lake Montezuma ♦ Mearn's montezuma quail ♦ Montezuma County ♦ Montezuma Creek ♦ Montezuma cypress ♦ Montezuma II. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Montezuma"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | underart af harlekintopvagtel (Mearn's montezuma quail, Montezuma quail). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | Montezuma-kwartel (Mearn's montezuma quail, Montezuma quail). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | colin de Masséna (Montezuma quail), colin arlequin de Mearns (Mearn's montezuma quail), colin arlequin (Montezuma quail). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Montezumawachtel (Mearn's montezuma quail), Mittelamerikanische Massena-Haubenwachtel (Montezuma quail), Mearns Massena-Haubenwachtel (Mearn's montezuma quail). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ορτύκι του Μέρνς (Mearn's montezuma quail), ορτύκι του Μοντεζούμα (Montezuma quail). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | mearnsi (Mearn's montezuma quail). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontezumamay colino arlequim de Mearns (Mearn's montezuma quail). (various references) | ||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cyrtonyx montezumae mearnsi, Cyrtonyx montezumae montezumae. (various references) |
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"Montezuma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Moctezuma, montezumas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-m-n-o-t-u-z" | |
-2 letters: automen, momenta, omentum. | |
-3 letters: amount, maumet, mentum, moment, omenta, outman, untame, zonate. | |
-4 letters: ament, atone, azote, matzo, meant, menta, monte, mount, muton, notum, oaten, toman, unmet. | |
-5 letters: aeon, amen, ammo, ante, atom, aunt, auto, azon, etna, mane, mano, mate, maun, maut, maze, mean, meat, memo, meno, menu, meou, meta, moan, moat, mome, mote, moue. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-m-n-o-t-u-z" | |
+4 letters: monumentalize. | |
+5 letters: monumentalized, monumentalizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 74 65 7A 75 6D 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. - . --.. ..- -- .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100101 01111010 01110101 01101101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n t e z u m a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 0074 0065 007A 0075 006D 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)478180867192877967 |
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