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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Owain (Sir). The Irish knight who passed through St. Patrick's purgatory by way of penance. (Henry of Saltrey : The Descent of Owain.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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"OWAIN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born". |
Date "OWAIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1858. (references) |
Crosswords: OWAIN |
| Specialty definitions using "OWAIN": Madoc, Magic Rings. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "OWAIN" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Welsh (Owen). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Prince of Wales Owain (1983) | |
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| "OWAIN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "OWAIN" is used about 17 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 64.71% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 29.41% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "OWAIN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be well born", "good", "well", "to be born". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "OWAIN." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Eugene | Male | English | N/A |
| Eugenia | Female | English | Eugene |
| Gene | Male | English | Eugene |
| Eugénie | Female | French | Eugene |
| Eugène | Male | French | Eugene |
| Eugen | Male | German | Eugene |
| Jenõ | Male | Hungarian | Eugene |
| Eugenia | Female | Italian | Eugene |
| Eugenio | Male | Italian | Eugene |
| Eugênia | Female | Portuguese | Eugene |
| Eugênio | Male | Portuguese | Eugene |
| Eugen | Male | Romanian | Eugene |
| Eugenia | Female | Romanian | Eugene |
| Evgeni | Male | Russian | Eugene |
| Eugenia | Female | Spanish | Eugene |
| Eugenio | Male | Spanish | Eugene |
| Owain | Male | Welsh | Eugene |
| Owen | Male | Welsh | Owain |
| Owain | Male | Welsh Mythology | Eugene |
| Yvain | Male | Welsh Mythology | Owain |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
owain glyndwr | 11 |
owain phyfe | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-o-w" | |
-1 letter: naoi, wain, wino. | |
-2 letters: ain, ani, awn, ion, naw, now, own, wan, win, won. | |
-3 letters: ai, an, aw, in, na, no, on, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: wanion. | |
+2 letters: avowing, rainbow, wanions, warison. | |
+3 letters: airwoman, airwomen, allowing, arrowing, cordwain, coxswain, ironware, miaowing, rainbows, wagoning, wainscot, warisons, waygoing, womaning, womanise, womanish, womanize. | |
+4 letters: antiwoman, boatswain, cordwains, coxswains, dawsonite, fallowing, farrowing, hallowing, handiwork, harrowing, ironwares, jawboning, kinswoman, marrowing, narrowing, outlawing, overawing, paintwork, paulownia, reavowing, sallowing, satinwood, shadowing, tallowing, waggoning, wainscots, walloping, wallowing, wantoning, waygoings, weaponing, wisewoman, womanised, womanises, womanized, womanizer, womanizes, womankind, womanlier, womanlike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 57 41 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- .--. .- .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010111 01000001 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O W A I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0057 0041 0049 004E |
| 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)4957354348 |
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