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PAVON

Definition: PAVON

PAVON

Noun

1. A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



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Crosswords: PAVON

Etymologies containing "PAVON": Pavan, Pavone. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: PAVON

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Mexico

Former Mexico City mayor Rosario Robles filed the charges against Pavon and Junco de la Vega following an April 12 cover story alleging that almost 10 percent of her administration's budget was missing. (references)

Mexico

In a May 22 letter to the President, the CPJ protested the defamation charges filed against Carolina Pavon, a reporter from the newspaper Reforma, and Alejandro Junco de la Vega, its president and publisher. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

In June prosecutors filed charges against Basilio Pavon and Osvaldo Vera, two police officers, alleging that on Bower's orders they tortured Alfredo Caceres and Jorge Lopez in the aftermath of the coup attempt. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: PAVON

The following table summarizes the usage of "PAVON" 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
PavonLast name1,00017,201
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derivations: PAVON

Derivations

Words beginning with "PAVON": pavonine. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "PAVON"

Words rhyming with "PAVON" (pronounced 'Pa"von'): Devon. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PAVON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-n-o-p-v"

-1 letter: nova.

-2 letters: avo, nap, ova, pan, van.

-3 letters: an, na, no, on, op, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-n-o-p-v"
 

+2 letters: vanpool.

 

+3 letters: anviltop, overplan, parvolin, pavilion, pavillon, pavonine, pivotman, vanpools, vaporing, volplane.

 

+4 letters: anviltops, approving, davenport, overplans, overplant, parvolins, pavilions, pavillons, pervasion, privation, supernova, vaporings, vapouring, volplaned, volplanes.

 

+5 letters: appointive, davenports, nonpassive, overexpand, overpaying, overplants, pavilioned, pervasions, polyvalent, privations, provenance, provincial, provitamin, supernovae, supernovas, unapproved, unprovable, vanpooling, vaporising, vaporizing, venography, vibraphone, volplaning.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PAVON


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

50 41 56 4F 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)

01010000 01000001 01010110 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#65 &#86 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0041 0056 004F 004E

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

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

5035564948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Names: Frequency
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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