WALLOONS

Definition: WALLOONS

WALLOONS

Noun plural

1. A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Walloons \Wal*loons"\, noun. plural; sing. Walloon. [Compare to the French expression wallon.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: WALLOONS

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Walloons Part of the great Romain stock. They occupied the low track along the frontiers of the German-speaking territory, as Artois, Hainault, Namur, Liége, Luxemburg, with parts of Flanders and Brabant. (See Wales .) "The Wallons ... are the Romanised Gauls, lineal representatives of the ancient Belgae."- Encyclopoedia Britannica, vol. xxi. p. 332. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Crosswords: WALLOONS

English words defined with "WALLOONS": Walloon guard. (references)

Top

Non-Fiction Usage: WALLOONS

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Belgium	Today, the Belgians are divided ethnically into the Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons, with a mixed population in Brussels representing the remainder. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top

Usage Frequency: WALLOONS

"WALLOONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WALLOONS" is used about 6 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 (plural)	100%	6	143,867

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

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: WALLOONS

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
walloons	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Misspellings: WALLOONS

Misspellings
	"WALLOONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wallon, Waylon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Anagrams: WALLOONS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-l-n-o-o-s-w"
	-2 letters: allows, aswoon, llanos, sallow, saloon, solano.
	-3 letters: allow, awols, lawns, llano, loans, loons, nolos, ollas, salol, salon, snool, solan, solon, swoon, walls, wools.
	-4 letters: alls, alow, also, awls, awns, awol, lawn, laws, loan, loon, loos, lown, lows, naos, nolo, nows, olla, owls, owns, sall, sawn, slaw, slow, snaw, snow, sola, solo, soon, sown.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-l-n-o-o-s-w"
	+4 letters: wollastonite.
	+5 letters: wollastonites.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.