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WAMBA

Date "WAMBA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Specialty Definition: WAMBA

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Literature

Wamba Son of Witless, and jester of Cedric "the Saxon," of Rotherwood. (Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: WAMBA

Etymologies containing "WAMBA": Gambison. (references)

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Modern Usage: WAMBA

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Movie/TV Titles

Wamba (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: WAMBA

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Books

  • New Congo for a New Millennium: Essays of Wamba Dia Wamba & Documents from the Rally for Congolese Democracy (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: WAMBA

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Political Economy

Congo

The RCD/ML, nominally led by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba until late in the year, commanded fewer troops and, like the largely non-Tutsi MLC, was supported by the Government of Uganda. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WAMBA

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

wamba

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

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Anagrams: WAMBA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-m-w"

-2 letters: aba, ama, awa, baa, bam, maw, wab.

-3 letters: aa, ab, am, aw, ba, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-m-w"
 

+3 letters: maccabaw.

 

+4 letters: maccabaws.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WAMBA


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

57 41 4D 42 41

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)

01010111 01000001 01001101 01000010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#77 &#66 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 004D 0042 0041

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

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

5735473635

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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