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Tannenberg

Definition: Tannenberg

Tannenberg

Noun

1. A battle in World War I (1914); decisive German victory over the Russians.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Tannenberg

Synonym: battle of Tannenberg (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Tannenberg

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tannenberg is the German name for the formerly East Prussian, now Polish, village of Stębark. It is still widely known by its German name due to two famous battles fought in its vicinity, in Battle of Tannenberg (1410) and 1914.

The city has been part of Poland since 1945.

External Links

The official website of the city of Olsztynek/Tannenberg: http://olsztynek.com.pl/

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

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Crosswords: Tannenberg

English words defined with "Tannenberg": battle of Tannenberg. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tannenberg

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tannenberg (1932)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tannenberg

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Economic History

Lithuania

Led by Jogaila and Vytautas, the united Polish-Lithuanian army defeated the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Tannenberg (Gruenwald or Zalgiras) in 1410, terminating the medieval Germanic drive eastward. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tannenberg

"Tannenberg" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tannenberg" is used about 12 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%12101,599

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

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Expression: Tannenberg

Expression using "Tannenberg": battle of Tannenberg. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tannenberg

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

tannenberg

12

battle tannenberg

10
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Modern Translations: Tannenberg

Language Translations for "tannenberg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tannenberg

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-n-n-n-r-t"

-2 letters: banneret.

-3 letters: banteng, grantee, greaten, negater, reagent, rebegan, regnant.

-4 letters: argent, banger, banner, bannet, banter, barege, bargee, beaten, beater, bennet, berate, enrage, entera, ergate, gannet, garnet, genera, gerent, graben, neaten, neater, negate, rebate, regent, rennet, tanner, tenner.

-5 letters: agene, agent, agree, anent, anger, antre, arete, barge, began, begat, beget, benne, beret, brant, brent, eager, eagre, eaten, eater, egret, enate, enter, genet, genre, grant, grate, great, grebe, green, greet, ragee, ranee, range, regna, rente, retag, taber, targe, tenge, terga, terne, treen.

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Alternative Orthography: Tannenberg


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

54 61 6E 6E 65 6E 62 65 72 67

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)

01010100 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01101110 01100010 01100101 01110010 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006E 006E 0065 006E 0062 0065 0072 0067

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

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

54678080718068718473

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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