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Definition: PARAMO |
PARAMONoun1. A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America. |
Etymology: Paramo \Pa"ra*mo\, noun; plural Paramos. [from Spanish expression p[ae]ramo.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PARAMO" is a common misspelling or typo for: Paradox, Paragon, Paramour, Parasol, Pram, Primo. |
Crosswords: PARAMO |
| English words defined with "PARAMO": Paramos. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PARAMO": Arnica de paramo. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Business | According to the government plan, Unipetrol should be privatized by 2002. The third country's refinery, Paramo Pardubice, was privatized in the coupon privatization. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PARAMO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "PARAMO" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PARAMO" 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 |
| Paramo | Last name | 300 | 25,252 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
pedro paramo | 91 |
paramo | 22 |
paramo pedro resumen | 13 |
paramo pedro summary | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paramo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | aramopay.(various references) | |
Spanish | Páramo (fell, moor, moorland). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PARAMO": paramos, paramount, paramountcies, paramountcy, paramountly, paramounts, paramour, paramours. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PARAMO" (pronounced 'Pa"ra*mo'): Altissimo, Atmo, Bayamo, Centesimo, Chromo, Duomo, DYNAMO, Eighteenmo, fortissimo, generalissimo, major-domo, Mormo, Namo, Pianissimo, Prestissimo, Primo, Proximo, Sixteenmo, Twelvemo, Twenty-fourmo, ultimo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-m-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: aroma, praam. | |
-2 letters: maar, mora, para, pram, prao, proa, prom, ramp, roam, romp. | |
-3 letters: ama, amp, arm, map, mar, moa, mop, mor, oar, ora, pam, par, pom, pro, ram, rap, rom. | |
-4 letters: aa, am, ar, ma, mo, om, op, or, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-m-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: amphora, paramos, roadmap. | |
+2 letters: amphorae, amphoral, amphoras, malaprop, mariposa, panorama, paraform, paramour, roadmaps. | |
+3 letters: ametropia, atemporal, malaprops, mariposas, panoramas, panoramic, paraforms, paramount, paramours, patrolman, procambia, prosomata, pyromania. | |
+4 letters: ametropias, anamorphic, anemograph, camelopard, camphorate, comparable, comparably, comparator, laparotomy, macrophage, malapropos, mascarpone, paralogism, paramounts, paranormal, parapodium, parmigiano, paroxysmal, phanerogam, piroplasma, praenomina, procambial, prodromata, pyromaniac, pyromanias, rampageous, sarcoplasm. | |
+5 letters: agamospermy, anemographs, approximate, azoospermia, camelopards, camphorated, camphorates, caprolactam, comparatist, comparative, comparators, emancipator, impartation, macrophages, macrophagic, madreporian, malapropian, malapropism, malapropist, mammography, manipulator, mascarpones, meprobamate, oarsmanship, paralogisms, paramountcy, paramountly, paranormals, paronomasia, pastoralism, patrimonial, phanerogams, pomegranate, portmanteau, postmarital, prothalamia, protonemata, psychodrama, pyromaniacs, sarcoplasms, spermagonia, spermatozoa, treponemata. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 52 41 4D 4F |
| 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)01010000 01000001 01010010 01000001 01001101 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A R A M O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0052 0041 004D 004F |
| 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)503552354749 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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