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NEWSMEN

Definition: NEWSMEN

NEWSMEN

Plural

1. Of Newsman

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Photo Album: NEWSMEN

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Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and chief scientist aboard the USC&GS Ship PIONEER during the International Indian Ocean Expedition, explains scientific apparatus to visiting newsmen at Colombo, Ceylon.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

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Usage Frequency: NEWSMEN

"NEWSMEN" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "NEWSMEN" is used about 42 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 (plural)97.62%4153,521
Noun (proper)2.38%1339,140
                    Total100.00%42N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEWSMEN

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

newsmen

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: NEWSMEN

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

Chinese 

  

新闻记者 (Newsman). (various references)

   

German

  

Journalisten (journalists). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

riporter (interviewer, news hawk, newsman, reporter), rikkancs (newsboy, newsman, paperboy). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

취재 기자 (Newsman). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ewsmennay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: NEWSMEN

Misspellings

"NEWSMEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lewismen, nawthen, Neesden, netsman, netsmen, Newment, Newsnet, nowmen. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "NEWSMEN"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "NEWSMEN" (pronounced nuw"zmen)
4-z m e nherdsmen, jazzmen, salesmen, tribesmen.
3-m e naldermen, assemblymen, brakemen, bushmen, businesswomen, cameramen, chairmen, chairwomen, clergymen, congressmen, congresswomen, councilmen, countrymen, crewmen, fishermen, freemen, freshmen, frogmen, gentlemen, infantrymen, lobstermen, marksmen, merchantmen, midshipmen, militiamen, newspapermen, policemen, policewomen, servicemen, spokesmen, spokeswomen, sportsmen, statesmen, superwomen, underclassmen, workmen.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: NEWSMEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-m-n-n-s-w"

-2 letters: mense, mesne, neems, nenes, semen, weens.

-3 letters: emes, ewes, mews, neem, nene, news, seem, seen, seme, sene, sewn, smew, ween, wees, wens.

-4 letters: eme, ems, ens, ewe, men, mew, nee, new, see, sen, sew, wee, wen.

-5 letters: em, en, es, me, ne, we.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-m-n-n-s-w"
 

+2 letters: newswomen.

 

+3 letters: endowments, newsmonger.

 

+4 letters: newsmongers, winsomeness, wonderments.

 

+5 letters: disendowment, minesweeping, newsmagazine, newspaperman, newspapermen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEWSMEN


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

4E 45 57 53 4D 45 4E

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)

01001110 01000101 01010111 01010011 01001101 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#87 &#83 &#77 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0057 0053 004D 0045 004E

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

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

48395753473948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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