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WILDWOOD

Definition: WILDWOOD

WILDWOOD

Noun

1. A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WILDWOOD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Modern Usage: WILDWOOD

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Song of the Wildwood Flute (1910)

Wild Times in the Wildwood (1980)

Song Titles

Wildwood Weed (performing artist: Jim Stafford)

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

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Specialty Definition: Wildwood

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Wildwood is the name of some places in the United States of America:

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

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Image Slideshow: WILDWOOD

Photos:
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Photo Album: WILDWOOD

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Many people enjoying the Wildwood Recreational Area. Credit: Unknown.

The basketball and volleyball facilities at the Wildwood Recreation Site. Credit: T. Hogervorst.

Picnic area in Wildwood State Park, 1936. Long Island, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Katzenjammer Castle and toboggan, Wildwood, St. Paul, Minn. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Pavilion at Wildwood, White Bear Lake, St. Paul, Minn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wildwood, N.J., Hotel Seaside. Credit: Library of Congress.

Edgeton Inn, Wildwood, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress.

Casino and board walk, Wildwood, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress.

Severn Hall, Wildwood, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sheldon Hotel, Wildwood, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: WILDWOOD

"WILDWOOD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "WILDWOOD" is used about 17 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 (singular)64.71%11106,044
Noun (proper)35.29%6143,867
                    Total100.00%17N/A

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

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Cities: WILDWOOD


1. Wildwood, CA
Zip Code(s): 96076
Country: USA


2. Wildwood, FL (city, FIPS 77675)
Location: 28.85427 N, 82.04078 W
Population (1990): 3421 (1794 housing units)
Area: 8.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 34785
Country: USA


3. Wildwood, GA
Zip Code(s): 30757
Country: USA


4. Wildwood, KY (city, FIPS 83208)
Location: 38.25040 N, 85.57434 W
Population (1990): 266 (117 housing units)
Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA


5. Wildwood, NJ (city, FIPS 81170)
Location: 38.98886 N, 74.82025 W
Population (1990): 4484 (6269 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expressions: WILDWOOD

Expressions using "WILDWOOD": North Wildwood West Wildwood Wildwood Crest Wildwood Lake. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WILDWOOD

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

wildwood nj

3,540

wildwood boardwalk

61

wildwood

1,849

wildwood travel trailer

52

wildwood new jersey

1,392

wildwood resort

50

wildwood hotel

501

park state wildwood

49

wildwood crest

440

wildwood chamber of commerce

47

wildwood new jersey hotel

378

campground wildwood

46

wildwood crest nj

281

hotel wildwood crest nj

46

wildwood nj hotel

211

wildwood nj weather

45

wildwood motel

207

wildwood rental

44

wildwood crest hotel

185

motel north wildwood

44

wildwood new jersey motel

169

wildwood lodge

43

wildwood crest new jersey

160

wildwood fl

43

wildwood inn

131

wildwood nj rental

42

north wildwood new jersey

118

highland wildwood

40

north wildwood

111

the wildwood flower

38

wildwood nj motel

81

center convention wildwood

37

north wildwood hotel

76

wildwood trailer

37

wildwood beach

75

wildwood crest new jersey hotel

37

wildwood n.j

67

wildwood camping

37

wildwood crest motel

66

lake wildwood

37
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WILDWOOD

Language Translations for "WILDWOOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

естествена гора, девствен лес. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δάσοσ (chaparral, forest, wood, woodland). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ildwoodway

   

Swedish

  

urskog (backwoods, primeval forest, virgin forest). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

праліс. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: WILDWOOD

Derivations

Words beginning with "WILDWOOD": wildwoods. (additional references)


Misspellings

"WILDWOOD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Wellwood, Wildmoos, Wiltwood. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "WILDWOOD"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "WILDWOOD" (pronounced wī"ldwuh'd)
4-d w uh' ddeadwood, hardwood, Redwood.
3-w uh' dBlackwood, boxwood, corkwood, Cottonwood, Dagwood, devilwood, dogwood, driftwood, firewood, greasewood, Greenwood, heartwood, ironwood, Leatherwood, logwood, plywood, pulpwood, rosewood, softwood, teakwood, Underwood, Wormwood.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: WILDWOOD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-i-l-o-o-w-w"

-3 letters: dildo, widow.

-4 letters: dido, diol, dodo, idol, lido, olio, wild, wold, wood, wool.

-5 letters: did, dol, dow, lid, loo, low, odd, oil, old, owl, woo, wow.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-i-l-o-o-w-w"
 

+1 letter: wildwoods.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WILDWOOD


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

57 49 4C 44 57 4F 4F 44

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 01001001 01001100 01000100 01010111 01001111 01001111 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#73 &#76 &#68 &#87 &#79 &#79 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 004C 0044 0057 004F 004F 0044

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

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

5743463857494938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Cities
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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