ROWLAND

"ROWLAND" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous land".

Date "ROWLAND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Rowland (See Roland .) Childe Rowland. Youngest brother of the "fair burd Helen." Guided by Merlin, he undertook to bring back his sister from Elf-land, whither the fairies had carried her, and succeeded in his perilous exploit. (Ancient Scotch ballad. "Childe Rowland to the dark tower came; His word was still `Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a Britishman.' " Shakespeare: King Lear, iii. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	ROWLAND. To give a Rowland for an Oliver; to give an equivalent. Rowland and Oliver were two knights famous in romance: the wonderful achievements of the one could only be equalled by those of the other. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Crosswords: ROWLAND

Specialty definitions using "ROWLAND": Beans ♦ Gilded Chamber. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Rowland Rivron Bites the Bullet (1996)
Song Titles	Stole (performing artist: Kelly Rowland) Dilemma (performing artist: Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland)
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Domain	Title
Books	Father Rowland : a North American tale (reference) Journal of the Very Rev. Rowland Davies, Ll.D.: Dean of Ross (And Afterwards Dean of Cork, from March 8, 16889-9, to September 29, 1690) (reference) My Life With Tiny: A Biography of Tiny Rowland (reference) Rowland Hilder : painter and illustrator (reference) Rowland Hilder: Painter of the English Landscape (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Wiredrag - arrangement of deck of guide boat Deck of contract sloop NENA A. ROWLAND Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		ARS geneticist Lisa J. Rowland has collected leaf tissue samples from blueberry plants for DNA analysis and genome mapping. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
	Welsh costumes / J.C. Rowland del. ; W. Banks Sc. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Rowland, L (ed).Merritt's Textbook of Neurology. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Novak	Al, for many years my late partner Rowland Evans would comment at this time on Art Buchwald. And let's listen to what Rowlie said about Art just a year ago.
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"ROWLAND" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROWLAND" is used about 252 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)	100%	252	18,696

The following table summarizes the usage of "ROWLAND" 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
Rowland	Last name	14,000	838
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"ROWLAND" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous land".

The following table summarizes names related to "ROWLAND."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Rolan	Male	N/A	Roland
Roeland	Male	Dutch	Roland
Roland	Male	English	N/A
Rolland	Male	English	Roland
Roly	Male	English	Roland
Rowland	Male	English	Roland
Roland	Male	French	N/A
Rolande	Female	French	Roland
Lóránd	Male	Hungarian	Roland
Lóránt	Male	Hungarian	Roland
Orlando	Male	Italian	Roland
Rolando	Male	Spanish	Roland
Roldán	Male	Spanish	Roland
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1. Rowland, NC (town, FIPS 58140)
Location: 34.53663 N, 79.29267 W
Population (1990): 1139 (485 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 28383
Country: USA

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Expression: ROWLAND

Expression using "ROWLAND": Rowland Heights. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROWLAND

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
kelly rowland	2,371	gallery kelly rowland	15
rowland heights ca	464	kelly rowland wallpaper	15
kelly picture rowland	115	rowland north carolina	14
dilemma kelly nelly rowland	111	design group jeff rowland	13
kelly lyrics rowland	109	by kelly lyrics rowland stole	11
rowland	90	cathy rowland	11
kelly lyrics rowland stole	83	460 rowland	11
kelly rowland stole	75	child destinys kelly rowland	11
rowland heights	61	kelly naked rowland	11
kelly pic rowland	58	paige rowland	11
nelly and kelly rowland	46	rodney rowland	10
kelly nude rowland	41	can kelly nobody rowland t	10
rowland high school	36	rowland heights city	10
rowland unified school district	33	dilemma kelly rowland	9
dilemma kelly lyrics rowland	28	kevin rowland	9
kelly photo rowland	27	john a rowland high school	9
can kelly lyrics nobody rowland t	26	brandy kelly rowland	9
john a rowland	22	kelly mp3 rowland	9
by kelly rowland stole	18	kelly rowland simply deep	9
jeff rowland	17	kelly rowland stole video	8
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Misspellings: ROWLAND

Misspellings
	"ROWLAND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cowland, Gowland, Rawalindi, Rawand, Rilwanu, Roelandt, Rohland, Rolawn, Rowallan, Rowallane, Rowlen, Towland. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ROWLAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-l-n-o-r-w"
	-1 letter: ladron, lardon, onward.
	-2 letters: adorn, adown, drawl, drawn, drown, loran, nodal, radon, rowan, waldo, woald, world.
	-3 letters: alow, awol, darn, dawn, dona, down, draw, land, lard, lawn, load, loan, lord, lorn, lown, nard, orad, oral, rand, road, roan, wand, ward, warn, woad, wold, word, worn.
	-4 letters: ado, and, awl, awn, dal, daw, dol, don.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-l-n-o-r-w"
	+1 letter: loanword.
	+2 letters: landowner, loanwords, lowlander.
	+3 letters: alderwoman, alderwomen, downwardly, landowners, lowlanders, untowardly, wonderland, woodlander.
	+4 letters: candlepower, wonderlands, woodlanders.
	+5 letters: candlepowers, cowardliness, nonlandowner, towardliness.
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