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Woden

Definition: Woden

Woden

Noun

1. Chief god; counterpart of Norse Odin and Teutonic Wotan.

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

"Woden" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the wind".

Date "Woden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Woden

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Woden Another form of Odin (q.v.). The word is incorporated in Wodensbury (Kent). Wednesbury (Suffolk), Wansdyke (Wiltshire), Wednesday, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Woden, Iowa

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Woden is a city located in Hancock County, Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 243.

Geography


Woden is located at 43°13'50" North, 93°54'34" West (43.230471, -93.909436)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²). 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 243 people, 115 households, and 69 families residing in the city. The population density is 218.2/km² (565.8/mi²). There are 125 housing units at an average density of 112.2/km² (291.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.59% White, 0.00% African American, 0.41% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.82% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 115 households out of which 21.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.1% are married couples living together, 7.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 40.0% are non-families. 39.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 23.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.11 and the average family size is 2.77. In the city the population is spread out with 21.4% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 26.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 86.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $27,083, and the median income for a family is $39,250. Males have a median income of $29,643 versus $21,000 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,544. 19.8% of the population and 14.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 54.8% are under the age of 18 and 7.0% are 65 or older.

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

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Synonym: Woden

Synonym: Wodan (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Woden

English words defined with "Woden": Wotan. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Woden

DomainTitle

Books

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Usage Frequency: Woden

"Woden" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Woden" is used about 6 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)66.67%4175,879
Noun (singular)33.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Woden

"Woden" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the wind".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Woden."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
WodenMaleAnglo-Saxon MythologyOdin
WotanMaleGermanic MythologyOdin
OdinMaleNorse MythologyN/A
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Cities: Woden


1. Woden, IA (city, FIPS 86700)
Location: 43.23051 N, 93.91045 W
Population (1990): 259 (123 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 50484
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Woden

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

woden

16

odin woden

10

woden ia

6

woden tx

6

isd woden

3

crosse three woden

3

woden high school

2
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Modern Translations: Woden

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

Dutch

  

Wodan (Wodan). (various references)

   

German

  

Wotan (Wodan). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odenway

   

Russian 

  

вотан. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

voden (aqueous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Woden"

Words rhyming with "Woden" (pronounced 'Wo"den'): Eden, Forboden, Gladen, Glidden, linden, Manhaden, menhaden, midden, Selden, unburden, Unsadden. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Woden

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: endow, owned.

Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-w"

-1 letter: done, down, enow, node, owed, wend.

-2 letters: den, dew, doe, don, dow, end, eon, new, nod, now, ode, one, owe, own, wed, wen, woe, won.

-3 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on, ow, we, wo.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-w"
 

+1 letter: downed, downer, endows, gowned, snowed, wonder, wonned, wonted, wooden.

 

+2 letters: bedgown, browned, clowned, crowned, decrown, downers, downier, drowned, drowner, endowed, endower, enwound, frowned, gowaned, hoedown, indowed, letdown, reendow, rewound, swooned, swouned, unbowed, unowned, unsowed, unwooed, wagoned, wendigo, widgeon, womaned, wonders, woodhen, woodmen, wounded, wronged.

 

+3 letters: bedgowns, bentwood, besnowed, comedown, danewort, decrowns, disendow, disowned, doweling, dowering, downbeat, downcome, downiest, downpipe, downside, downsize, downtime, drownded, drowners, endowers, endowing, enwombed, facedown, hoedowns, honeydew, ironweed, jawboned, knotweed, letdowns, madwomen, meltdown, narrowed, newfound, overwind, pinewood, pondweed, rawboned, reendows, renowned, snowshed, swordmen, swounded, takedown, teardown, unavowed, undertow, ungowned, unplowed, unwonted, unwooded, unworked, waggoned, wanderoo, wantoned, weaponed, wendigos, widgeons, windowed, winnowed, wondered, wonderer, wontedly, woodbine, woodener, woodenly, woodhens, woodnote, woodsmen, worsened.

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Alternative Orthography: Woden


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

57 6F 64 65 6E

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)

.--.    ---    -..    .    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101111 01100100 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#111 &#100 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 006F 0064 0065 006E

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

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

5781707180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Derived from
7. Cities
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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