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Definitions: Willard |
WillardNoun1. United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898). 2. United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Willard" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a will", "a desire", "to be brave", "hardy". |
Date "Willard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
Synonyms: WillardSynonyms: Emma Hart Willard (n), Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (n). (additional references) |
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Willard is a city located in Greene County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,193.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Willard is a village located in Torrance County, New Mexico. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 240.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Willard is a city located in Huron County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 6,806.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Willard is a city located in Box Elder County, Utah. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,630.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Willard is a town located in Rusk County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 539.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Willard, Kansas."
Crosswords: Willard |
| English words defined with "Willard": Emma Hart Willard ♦ Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard ♦ Josiah Willard Gibbs ♦ Willard Frank Libby, Willard Huntington Wright, Willard Van Orman Quine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Willard": Article omitted ♦ xxgdb. (references) |
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Screenplays | Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command? (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) Unfortunately, so can Willard Whyte. (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Willard (1971) | |
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![]() | ... inspite of mechanization the loggers lead an active life. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by N. Willard.. | ![]() | Fitting the right lenses in his spectacles ... means he can once more see the world about him. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by N. Willard.. |
![]() | Old weapons on exhibit in East Willard Park, circa Summer 1978. This area was rebuilt to another design in 1981-82, with the artifacts rearranged. Many of them, including all the missiles, were removed in or before the year 2000. The gun in the center is a 10-inch Brooke smoothbore from CSS Columbia. A Confederate 5-inch Whitworth rifle is at right, and a double-banded 7-inch Brooke rifle (captured on CSS Tennessee) is at left. A prototype launcher for "Terrier" missiles is behind these guns. In the center background is a "Regulus II" missile. Buildings 111 and 106 are in the distance. This photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center in January 1979. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Postal card of portrait photographs by J. Ellsworth Gross, Chicago, Illinois, 1910. Featured are Whipple Hall, Eugene B. Ely, J.A.D. McCurdy, Glenn H. Curtiss, J.C. "Bud" Mars, James J. Ward, Charles F. Willard, and two views of Curtiss pusher biplanes in flight. Probably taken during the Chicago aviation meet in early October 1910. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Uncle Sam cutting off U.S. oil supply to Japan] / Willard Combes. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Spanish Civil War: 1,000,000 dead, $20,000,000,000 lost, 32 months of terror, ruined cities, wrecked homes, bombed factories, lost treasures, farms injured / Willard Combes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Dinner given by Coln. William Eric Fowler. New Willard Hotel - Jan. 5, 1920, for the debutantes of the season of 1919-1920 / Schutz, photographer, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Charles H. Young and Willard Centilivre, lepers, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Gurley Memorial Hall, Emma Willard Seminary (School), Troy, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Gordon Willard Allport | Love--incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent--is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. |
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Kevin Kline | We used the Emma Willard School for Girls up in Troy, New York for the exteriors and the interiors were actually shot here in New York City up at Union Seminary and a bit at St. John the Divine. We just had to find big kind of neo-gothic architecture. |
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| "Willard" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Willard" is used about 52 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 (proper) | 100% | 52 | 47,145 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Willard" 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 |
| Willard | First name Male | 50,000 | 280 |
| Willard | Last name | 9,000 | 1,337 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Willard, CO 2. Willard, KS (city, FIPS 79250) 3. Willard, MO (city, FIPS 79882) 4. Willard, MT 5. Willard, NC 6. Willard, NM (village, FIPS 85160) 7. Willard, OH (city, FIPS 85232) 8. Willard, UT (city, FIPS 84710) 9. Willard, WI |
Expressions using "Willard": Emma Hart Willard ♦ Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard ♦ Josiah Willard Gibbs ♦ Willard Frank Libby ♦ Willard Huntington Wright ♦ Willard Van Orman Quine. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Willard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hillard, Sillard, Wellerd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-l-r-w" | |
-2 letters: drail, drawl, drill, laird, liard, lidar. | |
-3 letters: arid, aril, dial, dill, dirl, draw, laid, lair, lard, lari, liar, lira, raid, rail, rial, rill, wadi, wail, wair, wall, ward, wild, will. | |
-4 letters: aid, ail, air, all, awl, dal, daw, ill, lad, lar, law, lid, rad, raw, ria, rid, wad, war. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, al, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-l-r-w" | |
+1 letter: willyard. | |
+3 letters: drawlingly, firewalled. | |
+5 letters: wallydraigle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 69 6C 6C 61 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .. .-.. .-.. .- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i l l a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 006C 006C 0061 0072 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57757878678470 |
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