Tom Sawyer

  

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Tom Sawyer

Definition: Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer

Noun

1. The boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain.

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


Crosswords: Tom Sawyer

English words defined with "Tom Sawyer": ClemensMark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tom Sawyer

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I never read Tom Sawyer. Was he sexy? (Thoroughly Modern Millie; writing credit: Richard Morris)

Lyrics

Drift away like Tom Sawyer, ride a raft with ol' Huck Finn. (Mountain Music; performing artist: ALABAMA; writing credit: Randy Owen)

Movie/TV Titles

Tom Sawyer (1973)

Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer (1969)

Aventuras de Tom Sawyer (1958)

Detective Tom Sawyer (1938)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

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

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Commercial Usage: Tom Sawyer

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer (Barron's Book Notes) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Tom Sawyer

Computer Images:
Tom Sawyer

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Photo Album: Tom Sawyer

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Cardiff Hill, Hannibal, Missouri, where the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn statue will stand. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tom Sawyer

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

tom sawyer

416

adventure of tom sawyer

90

tom sawyer summary

14

rush tom sawyer

11

las aventuras de tom sawyer

11

mark twain tom sawyer

8

tom sawyer author

7

the adventure of tom sawyer summary

7

tom sawyer movie

6

tom sawyer detective

5

tom sawyer huckleberry finn

4

cliff note on tom sawyer

3

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3

tom sawyer essay

2

the adventure of tom sawyer cliff note

2

tom sawyer island

2

tom sawyer boat

2

the adventure of tom sawyer by mark twain

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tom Sawyer

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Asemum striatum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Tom Sawyer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-r-s-t-w-y"

-2 letters: maestro, mastery, someway, streamy, twasome, warmest, wastery, womeras.

-3 letters: armets, estray, master, maters, mateys, matres, mayest, mayors, metros, morays, mowers, oaters, orates, oyster, ramets, ramose, rawest, sawyer, smarty, smeary, stayer, steamy, storey, stormy, strawy, stream, stroma, swarty, swayer, sweaty, tamers, tawers, towers, towery, toyers, twyers, waster, wastry, waters, watery, womera, worset, wryest.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Tom Sawyer


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

54 6F 6D      53 61 77 79 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01010100 01101111 01101101 00100000 01010011 01100001 01110111 01111001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#109 &#32 &#83 &#97 &#119 &#121 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006D      0053 0061 0077 0079 0065 0072

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

5481792536789917184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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