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Veblen

Definitions: Veblen

Veblen

Noun

1. United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929).

2. United States mathematician (1880-1960).

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

Synonyms: Veblen

Synonyms: Oswald Veblen (n), Thorstein Bunde Veblen (n), Thorstein Veblen (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Veblen, South Dakota

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Veblen is a city located in Marshall County, South Dakota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 281.

Geography


Veblen is located at 45°51'46" North, 97°17'14" West (45.862802, -97.287146)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.8 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 281 people, 141 households, and 73 families residing in the city. The population density is 350.0/km² (915.8/mi²). There are 167 housing units at an average density of 208.0/km² (544.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 81.49% White, 0.00% African American, 15.30% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 2.49% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. 2.85% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 141 households out of which 22.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.5% are married couples living together, 11.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 48.2% are non-families. 47.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 29.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.99 and the average family size is 2.79. In the city the population is spread out with 25.3% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 18.5% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 30.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 45 years. For every 100 females there are 87.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 81.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $18,583, and the median income for a family is $20,625. Males have a median income of $31,964 versus $16,250 for females. The per capita income for the city is $12,053. 29.7% of the population and 25.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 41.9% are under the age of 18 and 23.2% are 65 or older.

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

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Crosswords: Veblen

English words defined with "Veblen": Oswald Veblen ♦ Thorstein Bunde Veblen, Thorstein Veblen. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Veblen": 57270. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Veblen

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism (Studies in Institutional Economics Series) (reference)

  • Portable Veblen (reference)

  • Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford (reference)

  • The Innocents at Cedro: A Memoir Thorstein Veblen and Some Others (reference)

  • The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Veblen

AuthorQuotation

Thorstein Veblen

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Veblen

"Veblen" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Veblen" is used about 21 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)95.24%2078,262
Adjective (general or positive)4.76%1339,140
                    Total100.00%21N/A

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

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Cities: Veblen


1. Veblen, SD (city, FIPS 66540)
Location: 45.86186 N, 97.28682 W
Population (1990): 321 (172 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 57270
Country: USA

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Expressions: Veblen

Expressions using "Veblen": Oswald Veblen ♦ Thorstein Bunde Veblen ♦ Thorstein Veblen. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Veblen

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

thorstein veblen

18

veblen

14

veblen sd

4

efecto veblen

3

veblen south dakota

2

thorsten veblen

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

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Anagrams: Veblen

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-n-v"

-1 letter: bevel, leben.

-2 letters: been, bene, even, neve.

-3 letters: bee, bel, ben, eel, eve, lee, lev, neb, nee, vee.

-4 letters: be, el, en, ne.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-n-v"
 

+2 letters: beveling, enviable, vendable, vendible.

 

+3 letters: believing, bevelling, evincible, unbeloved, vendables, vendibles, venerable, venerably.

 

+4 letters: bedeviling, benevolent, governable, inevitable, invertible, investable, unbeliever, unenviable, vulnerable.

 

+5 letters: ambivalence, bedevilling, bedevilment, bedriveling, benevolence, conceivable, conversable, convertible, livableness, lovableness, movableness, nonbeliever, overbalance, preventable, preventible, unbelievers, unbelieving, unremovable, visibleness, volubleness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Veblen


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

56 65 62 6C 65 6E

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)

...-    .    -...    .-..    .    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010110 01100101 01100010 01101100 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#98 &#108 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 0062 006C 0065 006E

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

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

567168787180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Usage Frequency
7. Cities
8. Expressions 		9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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