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Definition: Wimbledon |
WimbledonNoun1. A suburb of London and the headquarters of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Wimbledon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: Wimbledon |
| English words defined with "Wimbledon": Chris Evert, Chrissie Evert, Christine Marie Evert ♦ Evert ♦ Graf ♦ Martina Navratilova ♦ Navratilova ♦ Steffi Graf, Stephanie Graf. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Wimbledon": Yellow-bellies. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Wimbledon Poisoner (1994) Breakfast at Wimbledon (1992) | |
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 | U.S. American National Red Cross Convalescent Hospital No. 102, Wimbledon, England. : Entrance hall. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Smoking? No Way! : Wimbledon Champion / National Campaign Against Drug Abuse[,] Health Department...Western Australia. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Althea Gibson, of New York, reaching high for shot during women's singles semifinal match against Christine Truman, of England, in All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, July 4, 1957. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Maureen Connolly playing tennis at Wimbledon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Helen Wills playing tennis in Wimbledon, England. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Billie Jean King, playing in a singles match, during the All England Tennis Championship at Wimbledon, England. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wimbledon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.69% of the time. "Wimbledon" is used about 1,270 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) | 99.69% | 1,266 | 6,204 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.31% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Wimbledon, ND (city, FIPS 86620) |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Wimbledon": wimbledon-based, wimbledon-style. | |
Ending with "Wimbledon": pre-wimbledon. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Wimbledon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ウイルス病 (jacket, Vienna coffee, Vienna sausage, Viennese, Viennese waltz, viral disease, virus disease, wait, waiter, waitress, Weber, Wiener, winch, wind, windbreaker, windfall, windjacket, window, window display, window dressing, window shopping, Windsor char, windsurfer, windsurfing, wing, wing collar, wink, Winker, winter resort, winter sports). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ウインブルドン . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | imbledonway уимблдон. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Wimbledon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Embledown, Weembledon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-l-m-n-o-w" | |
-1 letter: imbolden. | |
-2 letters: bowline, wimbled. | |
-3 letters: bindle, blonde, blowed, boiled, bolide, bowled, bowmen, dolmen, domine, emboli, emodin, enwomb, indole, limbed, limned, lomein, meloid, milden, mildew, milneb, mobile, mobled, moiled, moline, monied, nimble, oilmen, wimble, windle, wombed. | |
-4 letters: bedim, below, bield, biome, blend, blind, blond, blown, boned, bowed, bowel, demob, demon, denim, dobie, dowel, dowie, dwine. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-l-m-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: mindblower. | |
+2 letters: mindblowers. | |
+4 letters: disemboweling. | |
+5 letters: disembowelling, disembowelment. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 69 6D 62 6C 65 64 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .. -- -... .-.. . -.. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01101001 01101101 01100010 01101100 01100101 01100100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W i m b l e d o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0069 006D 0062 006C 0065 0064 006F 006E |
| 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)577579687871708180 |
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