Witwatersrand

Definition: Witwatersrand

Witwatersrand

Noun

1. A rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese.

Specialty Definition: Witwatersrand

Domain	Definition
Mining	The gold-mining district, now usually called the Rand, in South Africa. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Witwatersrand

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Witwatersrand is a low mountain range which runs through Johannesburg South Africa. Translated from the Afrikaans language origin it means white water ridge. It is the geological origin of the vast gold deposits the area is famous for. Rand became the unit of currency of South Africa when it gained independance from Britain in 1961.
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Synonyms: Witwatersrand

Synonyms: Rand (n), Reef (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Witwatersrand

Specialty definitions using "Witwatersrand": banket, basal reef ♦ contact reef ♦ longwall peak stoping. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Witwatersrand

Domain	Title
References	Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Witwatersrand

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	South Africa	The discovery of diamonds at Kimberley in 1870 and the discovery of large gold deposits in the Witwatersrand region of the Transvaal in 1886 caused an influx of European (mainly British) immigration and investment. (references)
	South Africa	Gauteng Province stretches from Pretoria, the country's administrative capital in the North, to Vereeniging in the South, with Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand (the industrial and mining belt) straddling the center. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Witwatersrand

"Witwatersrand" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Witwatersrand" is used about 7 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)	85.71%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

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Usage in Company Names: Witwatersrand

Country	Name
South Africa	Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company Limited
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Expressions: Witwatersrand

Hyphenated Usage
	Containing "Witwatersrand": Pretoria-witwatersrand-vaal, Pretoria-witwatersrand-vereeniging.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Witwatersrand

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
university of the witwatersrand	45
technikon witwatersrand	12
witwatersrand	12
technicon witwatersrand	2
johannesburg tyson witwatersrand	2
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Anagrams: Witwatersrand

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-n-r-r-s-t-t-w-w"
	-3 letters: antitrades, attainders, rainwaters, retardants, warranties.
	-4 letters: arrestant, attainder, attainers, instarred, rainwater, reattains, restraint, retardant, retirants, sanitated, sternward, tawdriest, tearstain, transited, warranted, wiredrawn, wiredraws.
	-5 letters: airdates, antisera, antiwear, araneids, ariettas, aristate, astatine, attained, attainer, awaiters, awarders, dataries, detrains, drainers, eastward, instated, interwar, intreats, narrated, narrates, nitrated, nitrates, radiants, radiates, radwaste, rainwear, randiest, ratanies, reattain.
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