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Definition: Swanson |
SwansonNoun1. United States actress in many silent films (1899-1983). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Swanson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Synonyms: SwansonSynonyms: Gloria May Josephine Svensson (n), Gloria Swanson (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Swanson |
| Specialty definitions using "Swanson": Concurrent Scheme. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I feel like Gloria Swanson. (Mrs. Doubtfire; writing credit: Randi Mayem Singer) | |
Clever | On some Swanson frozen dinners: "Serving suggestion: Defrost. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1954) Bad News Mr. Swanson (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lawrence W. Swanson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Oil containment boom placed in Swanson Creek, tributary to the Patuxent River, after oil spill at power generating plant. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Clean-up area in Benedict as a result of the April 7th oil spill in Swanson Creek, a tributary of the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, NH. : Inspection of hospital by Rear Admiral C. A. Swanson, Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Scene in the Secretary of the Navy's office, as bids are opened for the construction of the battleships South Dakota (BB-57), Indiana (BB-58) and Massachusetts (BB-59). Seated at the table are (left to right): Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations; Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson; Rear Admiral Walter B. Woodson, Judge Advocate General; and Rear Admiral William G. DuBose, Chief, Bureau of Construction and Repair. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Chief, Bureau of Engineering, is standing at the far right, talking to Rear Admiral DuBose. The others present are not identified. Credit: NAVY. |  | Admiral Thomas C. Hart, incoming Commander in Chief Asiatic Fleet (left center), his predecessor, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell (right center), and members of their staffs salute as Yarnell's flag is taken down and Hart's is raised, during ceremonies on board USS Augusta (CA-31) off Shanghai, China. Black armbands are worn in mourning for the late Secretary of the Navy, Claude A. Swanson, who had died on 3 March 1939. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Gloria Swanson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sen. Claude A. Swanson and Ray Baker standing on sidewalk and talking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gloria Swanson acting in Paramount's "Sunset Boulevard," with Director Billy Wilder behind camera, seated over swimming pool, at a Wilshire Boulevard mansion in Los Angeles. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Home of Charles Swanson, cut-over farmer near Northome, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Denmark | Defense and Naval Attache--Captain E. Carl Swanson, Jr. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Swanson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Swanson" is used about 45 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% | 45 | 50,900 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Swanson" 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 |
| Swanson | Last name | 29,000 | 383 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Swanson": Gloria Swanson. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Swanson" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sansoni, Sansons, Shanson, Skansen, Swensen, Swinscoe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-n-o-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: sowans. | |
-2 letters: nonas, snaws, snows, swans. | |
-3 letters: anon, awns, nans, naos, nona, nows, ossa, owns, sans, sawn, saws, snaw, snow, sons, sown, sows, swan, wans, wons. | |
-4 letters: ass, awn, nan, naw, nos, now, ons, own, saw, son, sos, sow, wan, was, won, wos. | |
-5 letters: an, as, aw, na, no, on, os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-n-o-s-s-w" | |
+2 letters: snowbanks, snowlands, swansdown. | |
+3 letters: narrowness, nonanswers, swansdowns, wantonness. | |
+4 letters: rawinsondes, shantytowns, womanliness. | |
+5 letters: downwardness, narrownesses, untowardness, wainscotings, wantonnesses, womanishness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 77 61 6E 73 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. .- -. ... --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S w a n s o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0077 0061 006E 0073 006F 006E |
| 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)53896780858180 |
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