Wain

Definitions: Wain

Wain

Noun

1. English writer (1925-1994).

2. A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.

3. Large open farm wagon.

Date "Wain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Wain

Synonyms: Big Dipper (n), Charles's Wain (n), Dipper (n), John Barrington Wain (n), John Wain (n), Plough (n), Wagon (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Wain

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vehicle	Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.
	Noun: vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van; common carrier; wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry.
World	Constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Wain

English words defined with "Wain": Charles's Wain ♦ John Barrington Wain, John Wain ♦ The Dipper, The Wain ♦ Ursa Major ♦ Wain rope. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Wain": Beefeaters ♦ Northern Wagoner. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Wain

Domain	Title
Books	A Catland Companion: Classic Cats by Louis Wain and Many Others (reference) Cats of Louis Wain (reference) John Braine and John Wain : a reference guide (reference) John Wain (reference) John Wain : a man of letters (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Wain

"Wain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.22% of the time. "Wain" 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 (singular)	82.22%	37	56,631
Noun (proper)	8.89%	4	175,879
Adjective (general or positive)	6.67%	3	202,518
Noun (common)	2.22%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Wain

The following table summarizes the usage of "Wain" 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
Wain	Last name	300	23,307
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Wain

Expressions using "Wain": charles's wain ♦ Conestoga wain ♦ John Barrington Wain ♦ John Wain ♦ lesser wain ♦ the lesser wain ♦ the wain ♦ wain rope. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wain

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
louis wain	18
wain	11
john wain	9
bea wain	8
burmeister wain	7
roy wain	6
wain wonder	6
hay wain	6
philip wain	5
phillip wain	5
silver wain water	3
paula wain	3
fountain wain	3
david wain	2
bucket roy wain	2
tarisa wain	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wain

Language		Translations for "Wain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qerre (cart, dray, oxcart, tumbrel, tumbril, waggon, wagon), karro (car, trolley, waggon, wagon). (various references)

Bulgarian		кола (car, carriage, cart, cartful, drag, machine, motor car, quire, starch, wheels). (various references)

Czech		velký vùz (charles's wain). (various references)

Finnish		Otava (Charles's Wain, the Dipper, the Plough). (various references)

German		Wagen (baby carriage, bus, car, caravan, carriage, cars, cart, coach, dare, dared, durst, hauled stock, hazard, machine, pram, railway carriage, risk, to risk, to take a chance, trailer stock, trailling stock, trolley, trollies, trolly, truck, Van, vehicle, vehicles, vehicular, venture, waggon, wagon). (various references)

Greek		κάρρο (waggon). (various references)

Hungarian		jajveszékelés (lamentation, ululation, wail, whining). (various references)

Italian		carriaggio. (various references)

Manx		cairt vooar. (various references)

Pig Latin		ainway

Portuguese		carroça (cart, cart load, chariot, rig), carro (auto, automobile, bed, car, carriage, carrier, cart, chariot, coffin, hand truck, lorry, slide, trolley, truck, vehicle, waggon, wagon). (various references)

Romanian		chervan (caravan, Van, waggon), car (carload, cart, float), cãruţã (caravan, carload, cart, dray, waggon). (various references)

Russian		телега (cart, dray). (various references)

Scottish		grigirean (the constellation of Charles' wain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kola (car, cola, kola). (various references)

Swedish		karlavagnen (charles's wain, the big dipper). (various references)

Turkish		yük arabası (dray, dray chart, trolley, waggon, wagon). (various references)

Ukranian		віз (car, cart, cartload, waggon, wagon), велика ведмедиця. (various references)

Vietnamese		chòm sao Đại hùng (charles's wain). (various references)

Welsh		men (cart, wagon), certwyn (cart), certwain (cart), ben (cart, wagon). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Wain

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	plaustra, plaustri, plaustris, plaustro, plaustrum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Wain

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Wain": wains, wainscot, wainscoted, wainscoting, wainscotings, wainscots, wainscotted, wainscotting, wainscottings, wainwright, wainwrights. (additional references)
	Words ending with "Wain": atwain, boatswain, cordwain, coxswain, swain, twain. (additional references)
	Words containing "Wain": boatswains, cordwainer, cordwaineries, cordwainers, cordwainery, cordwains, coxswained, coxswaining, coxswains, swainish, swainishness, swainishnesses, swains, twains. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Wain"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Wain" (pronounced wā"n)
3	w ā" n	Swain, twain, wane.
2	-ā" n	abstain, alane, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, bane, blain, brain, butane, Cain, campaign, cane, chain, champagne, Champaign, cocaine, complain, constrain, contain, crane, delaine, detain, disdain, domain, drain, entertain, explain, fain, Fane, feign, gain, germane, grain, humane, inane, ingrain, inhumane, insane, Jane, kain, Kane, lain, Lane, legerdemain, main, maintain, mane, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, overtrain, pain, pane, pertain, plain, plane, preordain, profane, rain, refrain, regain, reign, rein, remain, restrain, retain, retrain, Romaine, sain, sane, slain, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, terrain, Thane, train, urbane, vain, vane, vein.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Wain

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-n-w"
	-1 letter: ain, ani, awn, naw, wan, win.
	-2 letters: ai, an, aw, in, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-n-w"
	+1 letter: awing, diwan, rawin, swain, twain, wains, wigan, witan.
	+2 letters: atwain, aweing, awning, cawing, dawing, diwans, haniwa, hawing, impawn, inwall, inward, inwrap, jawing, lawine, lawing, mawing, pawing, rawins, sawing, swains, tawing, twains, wading, waging, wahine, waking, waling, wanier, waning, wanion, waring, waving, waxing, wigans, yawing.
	+3 letters: antiwar, anywise, avowing, awaking, awnings, batwing, bawling, blawing, chawing, clawing, dawning, dawting, drawing, fanwise, fawnier, fawning, flawing, gawking, gawping, gnawing, hawking, impawns, indrawn, inwalls, inwards, inweave, inwraps, jawline, jigsawn, lapwing, lauwine, lawines, lawings, manwise, pawning, pinwale, rainbow, ringtaw, shawing, snawing, swaging, swaying, tawnier, tawnies, tawnily, tawsing, thawing, tinware, vawntie, wadding, waffing, wafting, wagging, wahines, waifing, wailing, wairing, waiting, waiving, walking, walling, waniest, wanigan, wanions, wanning, wanting, wapping, warding, warison, warking, warming, warning, warping, warring, washing, wasting, wauking, wauling, wawling, waxings, waxwing, weaning, wearing, weaving, whaling, windage, windbag, windway, wingman, wireman, yawling, yawning, yawping.
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