Tammany

Definition: Tammany

Tammany

Noun

1. A political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism.

Date "Tammany" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonyms: Tammany

Synonyms: Tammany Hall (n), Tammany Society (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tammany

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Party	Knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tammany

English words defined with "Tammany": sachem ♦ Tammany Hall, Tammany Society. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Tammany": Locofocos. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tammany

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

A Tammany Boarder (1913)

Dick Croker Leaving Tammany Hall (1900)

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

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Commercial Usage: Tammany

Domain	Title
Books	Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Tammany Hall of New York (reference) Our Fight With Tammany (The Rise of Urban America) (reference) Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (reference) Tammany Hall. (reference) The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones and Tammany, 1920-1970 (Suny Series in Afro-American Studies) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tammany

"Tammany" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tammany" 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

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

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Expressions: Tammany

Expressions using "Tammany": St. Tammany Parish ♦ Tammany Hall ♦ Tammany Society. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Tammany": tammany-type.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tammany

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
tammany hall	62
board parish school st tammany	53
hospital parish st tammany	32
parish school st tammany	28
government parish st tammany	26
library parish st tammany	26
st tammany	22
hospital st tammany	17
appraiser st tammany	14
clerk court parish st tammany	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tammany

Language		Translations for "tammany"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		ammanytay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Tammany

Misspellings
	"Tammany" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Timmony, Timoney, Tomany, Tominey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tammany

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-m-m-n-t-y"
	-2 letters: atman, manat, manta, mayan, tammy.
	-3 letters: anta, atma, mama, mana, many, maya, myna.
	-4 letters: ama, ana, ant, any, man, mat, may, nam, nay, tam, tan, yam.
	-5 letters: aa, am, an, at, ay, ma, mm, my, na, ta, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-m-m-n-t-y"
	+3 letters: mythomania.
	+4 letters: magnanimity, mythomaniac, mythomanias.
	+5 letters: inflammatory, microanatomy, mythomaniacs.
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