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RAVENSWOOD

Date "RAVENSWOOD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)


Specialty Definition: RAVENSWOOD

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Literature

Ravenswood (Allan, Lord of). A decayed Scotch nobleman of the Royalist party.
Master Edgar Ravenswood. His son, who falls in love with Lucy Ashton, daughter of Sir William Ashton, Lord-Keeper of Scotland. The lovers plight their troth at the Mermaid's Fountain, but Lucy is compelled to marry Frank Hayston, laird of Bucklaw. The bride, in a fit of insanity, attempts to murder the bridegroom and dies in convulsions. Bucklaw recovers, and goes abroad. Colonel Ashton, seeing Edgar at the funeral of Lucy, appoints a hostile meeting; and Edgar, on his way to the place appointed, is lost in the quicksands of Kelpies-flow. (Sir Walter Scott: Bride of Lammermoor.
In Donizetti's opera of Lucia di Lammermoor, Bucklaw dies of the wound inflicted by the bride, and Edgar, heart-broken, comes on the stage and kills himself, that "his marriage with Lucy, forbidden on earth, may be consummated in heaven." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Ravenswood, West Virginia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ravenswood is a city located in Jackson County, West Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 4,031.

Geography


Ravenswood is located at 38°57'11" North, 81°45'41" West (38.952922, -81.761357)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.8 km² (1.9 mi²). 4.8 km² (1.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.60% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 4,031 people, 1,692 households, and 1,135 families residing in the city. The population density is 845.9/km² (2,190.1/mi²). There are 1,832 housing units at an average density of 384.4/km² (995.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 98.04% White, 0.25% African American, 0.05% Native American, 0.74% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. 0.60% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,692 households out of which 29.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.5% are married couples living together, 12.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.9% are non-families. 30.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.29 and the average family size is 2.83. In the city the population is spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 23.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 84.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 77.1 males. The median income for a household in the city is $30,308, and the median income for a family is $37,416. Males have a median income of $34,417 versus $21,134 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,696. 17.6% of the population and 15.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 26.4% are under the age of 18 and 9.7% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ravenswood, West Virginia."

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Crosswords: RAVENSWOOD

Specialty definitions using "RAVENSWOOD": Bucklaw. (references)

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Usage Frequency: RAVENSWOOD

"RAVENSWOOD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RAVENSWOOD" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: RAVENSWOOD

CountryName
USA

Ravenswood Winery, Inc.

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Cities: RAVENSWOOD


1. Ravenswood, WV (city, FIPS 67108)
Location: 38.95721 N, 81.76311 W
Population (1990): 4189 (1776 housing units)
Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 26164
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RAVENSWOOD

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ravenswood

91

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3

ravenswood west virginia

83

ravenswood zinfandel

3

manor ravenswood

22

castle ohio ravenswood

3

ravenswood winery

21

ravenswood vineyard

3

hospital ravenswood

16

center hospital medical ravenswood

3

ravenswood high school

13

chicago hospital ravenswood

3

ravenswood wine

13

course golf ravenswood

3

district ravenswood school

9

neighborhood ravenswood

3

castle ravenswood

7

girl ravenswood school

2

ravenswood city school district

5

park ravenswood

2

ravenswood apartment

5

aluminum ravenswood

2

chicago ravenswood

5

center medical ravenswood

2

livermore ravenswood

4

ravenswood school

2

leather ravenswood

4

ravenswood hotel

2
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Misspellings: RAVENSWOOD

Misspellings

"RAVENSWOOD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ravenstor. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: RAVENSWOOD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-o-r-s-v-w"

-1 letter: wanderoos.

-2 letters: advowson, wanderoo.

-3 letters: avowers, downers, dwarves, onwards, oversad, oversaw, reavows, redowas, roadeos, savored, swooned, swooner, vendors, wanders, wardens, wonders.

-4 letters: adores, adorns, anodes, answer, arseno, aswoon, avowed, avower, davens, denars, devons, dewans, dewars, donors, dovens, dowers, downer, dowser, drones, droves, drowns, drowse, endows, nodose, noosed, nooser, odeons, onward, oreads, overdo, owners, radons.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-o-r-s-v-w"
 

+3 letters: overshadowing.

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Alternative Orthography: RAVENSWOOD


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

52 41 56 45 4E 53 57 4F 4F 44

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000001 01010110 01000101 01001110 01010011 01010111 01001111 01001111 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 0056 0045 004E 0053 0057 004F 004F 0044

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

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

52355639485357494938

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INDEX

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


  

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