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Norn

Definition: Norn

Norn

Noun

1. Any of the three Fates or goddesses of destiny; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae.

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

"Norn" is a common misspelling or typo for: noon, nor, norm, noun.

Crosswords: Norn

Specialty definitions using "Norn": Nornir. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Norn

DomainTitle

Books

  • Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (Celtic Language and Literature: Goidelic and Brythonic) (reference)

  • The norn (reference)

  • The Norn Language of Orkney and Shetland (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Norn

The following table summarizes the usage of "Norn" 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
NornLast name13069,599
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Norn

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

  norn

11

  creature download norn

4

  mutation norn

3

  creature norn

3

  downloads norn

2

  3 breed creature norn

2

  norn ny

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Norn

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

Swedish

  

norna. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Norn

Derivations

Words containing "Norn": unornamented, unornate. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Norn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "n-n-o-r"

-1 letter: nor.

-2 letters: no, on, or.

 Words containing the letters "n-n-o-r"
 

+2 letters: conner, inborn, intron, kronen, natron, neuron, nonart, nonpar, nonwar, renown, ronion, ronnel, ronyon, tonner, turnon, unborn, untorn, unworn, wonner.

 

+3 letters: andiron, annoyer, baronne, bonnier, canonry, chronon, concern, conners, corning, crannog, dendron, donnerd, donnert, droning, einkorn, enteron, environ, fenuron, fronton, grunion, horning, inferno, ingrown, inkhorn, intoner, introns, ironing, linuron, lorgnon, moneran, monuron, morning, natrons, negroni, nephron, neurone, neurons, neutron, newborn, nocturn, nonarts, nondrug, nonfarm, nonhero, noniron, nonjury, nonpoor, nonpros, nonuser, nonwars, nonword, nonwork, nonzero, norland, organon, prenoon, pronoun, renowns, reunion, ronions, ronnels, rontgen, ronyons, rundown, snoring, sorning, tenoner, ternion, tinhorn, tonners, turnons, uncrown, unicorn, unround, unroven, unshorn, unsworn, wonners.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Norn


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

4E 6F 72 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01101111 01110010 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#114 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 0072 006E

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

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

48818480

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Names: Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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