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Wilmington

Definitions: Wilmington

Wilmington

Noun

1. A town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River.

2. The largest city in Delaware.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Wilmington" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Wilmington

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Literature

Wilmington invoked by Thomson in his Winter, is Sir Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, the first patron of our poet, and Speaker of the House of Commons. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Wilmington

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Wilmington is the name of several places in the United States of America and in England:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wilmington."
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Modern Usage: Wilmington
DomainUsage
Movie/TV Titles
000 Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10 (1979)
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Commercial Usage: Wilmington
DomainTitle
References
  • Wilmington Group Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)
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Books
  • Cinematic Wilmington : Making Movies on the Cape Fear Coast (reference)
  • Easy Finder Wilmington Pennsylvania (reference)
  • Fort Anderson: Battle for Wilmington (reference)
  • Insiders' Guide Nc's Southern Coast & Wilmington (Insiders Guide to North Carolinas Southern Coast & Wilmington, 9th Ed) (reference)
  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Wilmington Trust Corp. - WL [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)
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Periodicals
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Image Slideshow: Wilmington
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Photo Album: Wilmington
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U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital, Wilmington, Del. : General view. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Probably photographed during the Spanish-American War, 1898. Ship beyond her bow is either USS Helena or USS Wilmington. Credit: NAVY.
Photograph by Van Orsdell, Market Street, Wilmington, NC. Possibly taken while Maffitt was stationed at Wilmington in 1864. Credit: NAVY.
Saint Andrew's Church, Wilmington, Delaware, revised design for w.i. bracket-lantern over steps at entrance to chapel from south yard  / The Iron-Craftsmen ; Pope & Kruse, arch'ts. Credit: Library of Congress.
Dauneport, the Dupont estate, Wilmington, Del.  Garages. Credit: Library of Congress.
The invasion of Maryland--capture of a train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad at Magnolia, near Gunpowderb [sic] Ridge, July 11  / from a sketch by our special artist. Credit: Library of Congress.
Louis L. Redding, left, of Wilmington, Del., and Thurgood Marshall, general counsel for NAACP, conferring at the Supreme Court, during a recess in the court's hearing on racial integration in the public schools. Credit: Library of Congress.
U.S.S. Wilmington, ship's company. Credit: Library of Congress.
Home for soldiers' widows, Wilmington, Ill's. Credit: Library of Congress.
California Shipbuilding Corporation, Wilmington, California. Cargo winches and superstructure on the deck of a Liberty ship in the final stages of construction. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Speeches: Wilmington
SpeakerTermPhrase(s)
John Quincy Adams
1825-1829On the survey of the Swash, in Pamlico Sound, and that of Cape Fear, below the town of Wilmington, in North Carolina.
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Usage Frequency: Wilmington
"Wilmington" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wilmington" is used about 27 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 (proper)100%2766,962 
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Usage in Company Names: Wilmington
CountryNameCountryName
United Kingdom
Wilmington Group Plc
USA
Wilmington Trust Corpn
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Cities: Wilmington

1. Wilmington, CA 
Zip Code(s): 90744
Country: USA
2. Wilmington, DE (city, FIPS 77580) 
Location: 39.73557 N, 75.52996 W 
Population (1990): 71529 (31244 housing units) 
Area: 27.9 sq km (land), 16.0 sq km (water) 
Zip Code(s): 19801, 19802, 19805, 19806
Country: USA
3. Wilmington, IL (city, FIPS 82101) 
Location: 41.29767 N, 88.15963 W 
Population (1990): 4743 (1875 housing units) 
Area: 12.1 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
Country: USA
4. Wilmington, IL (village, FIPS 82088) 
Location: 39.48247 N, 90.48956 W 
Population (1990): 129 (56 housing units) 
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA
5. Wilmington, MA (CDP, FIPS 80195) 
Location: 42.55937 N, 71.16658 W 
Population (1990): 17654 (5667 housing units) 
Area: 44.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) 
Zip Code(s): 01887
Country: USA
6. Wilmington, NC (city, FIPS 74440) 
Location: 34.21245 N, 77.91130 W 
Population (1990): 55530 (26469 housing units) 
Area: 76.9 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) 
Zip Code(s): 28403, 28409, 28412
Country: USA
7. Wilmington, NY 
Zip Code(s): 12997
Country: USA
8. Wilmington, OH (city, FIPS 85792) 
Location: 39.44362 N, 83.83090 W 
Population (1990): 11199 (4635 housing units) 
Area: 12.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) 
Zip Code(s): 45177
Country: USA
9. Wilmington, VT 
Zip Code(s): 05363
Country: USA
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Expressions: Wilmington
Expressions using "Wilmington": New Wilmington ♦ South Wilmington ♦ Wilmington Island ♦ Wilmington Manor ♦ wilmington nc. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wilmington
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
wilmington north carolina
4,553
wilmington nc newspaper
111
wilmington de
3,936
wilmington vt
97
wilmington
728
wilmington north carolina real estate
95
wilmington star news
423
wilmington ca
83
wilmington college
372
wilmington newspaper
80
wilmington oh
345
wilmington beach
80
wilmington news journal
331
city of wilmington
74
unc wilmington
293
wilmington il
62
wilmington delaware
292
wilmington nc job
57
wilmington trust
292
new wilmington pa
50
wilmington ma
274
wilmington n.c
49
university of north carolina at wilmington
235
hotel in wilmington nc
44
wilmington blue rock
205
wilmington north carolina newspaper
43
star wilmington
177
beach nc wilmington
43
wilmington hotel
170
chamber commerce nc wilmington
42
real estate wilmington
146
wilmington nc weather
42
morning star wilmington
139
wilmington real estate listing
42
wilmington nc real estate
126
wilmington ny
37
wilmington ohio
117
shark wilmington
35
hotel wilmington nc
116
chamber commerce wilmington
33
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Misspellings: Wilmington
Misspellings
"Wilmington" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ilmington, Impington, Kilmington, Kirmington, Timmington. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).
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Anagrams: Wilmington
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-t-w"
-2 letters: wintling.
-3 letters: limning, milting, minting, moiling, molting, nitinol, toiling, twining, wilting, witling, wonting.
-4 letters: intown, lignin, liming, lining, lowing, mignon, mining, minion, minnow, mowing, noting, oiling, owning, tiglon, tiling, timing, tining, toling, toning, towing, wiling, wining, witing.
-5 letters: glint, imino, ingot, inion, limit, lingo, linin, niton, owing, tigon.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wilmington

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)
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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)
         
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)
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HTML Code (1990) (references)
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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)
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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)
57757879758073868180
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INDEX
 1. Definition 
 2. Usage: Modern 
 3. Usage: Commercial 
 4. Images: Slideshow 		 5. Images: Photo Album 
 6. Quotations: Speeches 
 7. Usage Frequency 
 8. Names: Company Usage 		 9. Cities 
 10. Expressions 
 11. Expressions: Internet 
 12. Derivations 		 13. Anagrams 
 14. Orthography 
 15. Bibliography 


  
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