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Definition: PORTMAN |
PORTMANNoun1. An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports. |
Date "PORTMAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references) |
Crosswords: PORTMAN |
| English words defined with "PORTMAN": Portmen. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Me. Jn. Ae. Ns. Condorcet / L. Portman, sculp. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The new meat market and Portman cafe. Forest Hill, by Camp Claiborne, near Alexandria, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Card | I love Rob Portman. He's a terrific fellow. But I happen know that President Bush pushed very hard for his domestic agenda. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PORTMAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.67% of the time. "PORTMAN" is used about 73 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) | 87.67% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.33% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PORTMAN" 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 |
| Portman | Last name | 400 | 20,608 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Australia | Portman Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PORTMAN": Portman-stuart. | |
Ending with "PORTMAN": Street-portman. | |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PORTMAN": portmanteau, portmanteaus, portmanteaux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PORTMAN" (pronounced 'Port"man'): Airman, Almsman, Artsman, Atman, Axman, Backwoodsman, Bagman, Bargeman, batsman, Bayman, Bellman, Billman, Boatsman, Bondman, BONDSMAN, Bookman, Bordman, Brachman, Brakeman, Breakman, Bridesman, Briefman, Burman, Bushman, Cabman, Canoeman, Carman, Cartman, Cayman, Chairman, Chapman, Chessman, Churchman, Clansman, Classman, Coachman, Cogman, Copeman, Cousin-german, Cracksman, Craftsman, Cragsman, Dalesman, Daysman, Deathsman, Dustman, Dutchman, fireman, Firman, Flagman. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: matron, parton, patron, potman, tampon, tarpon. | |
-2 letters: amort, aport, apron, manor, panto, roman, toman, tramp, tromp, trona. | |
-3 letters: atom, atop, mano, mart, moan, moat, mora, morn, mort, noma, norm, nota, pant, part, porn, port, pram, prao, prat, proa, prom, ramp, rant, rapt, rato, roam, roan, romp, rota, tamp, tarn, taro, tarp, tora, torn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: protamin. | |
+2 letters: important, paramount, patrimony, patrolman, patrolmen, protamine, protamins, protonema, sportsman, treponema. | |
+3 letters: comparting, foretopman, homopteran, importance, importancy, morphactin, paramounts, patronymic, permeation, portamenti, portamento, poultryman, protamines, protohuman, protonemal, provitamin, trampoline, treponemal, treponemas. | |
+4 letters: aminopterin, compartment, compensator, emancipator, homopterans, hymenoptera, impartation, impersonate, impetration, importances, importantly, importation, importunate, imprecation, impregnator, manipulator, metanephroi, metanephros, misanthrope, misanthropy, morphactins, nontemporal, overpayment, paramountcy, paramountly, patrimonial, patrimonies, patronymics, pentamerous, permeations, permutation, pomegranate, portamentos, portmanteau, postmarking, predominant, predominate, prenominate, preromantic, prognathism, promotional, protohumans, protonemata, provitamins, sportsmanly, sportswoman, trampoliner, trampolines, treponemata, trypanosome, unimportant. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 52 54 4D 41 4E |
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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 01001111 01010010 01010100 01001101 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O R T M A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0052 0054 004D 0041 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)50495254473548 |
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