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Definitions: Brownstone |
BrownstoneNoun1. A reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings. 2. A row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brownstone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A brown or reddish-brown sandstone with grains generally coated with iron oxide; specif. a dark, reddish-brown, ferruginous quartz sandstone ofTriassic age. (references) |
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Crosswords: Brownstone |
| English words defined with "brownstone": Brown stone. (references) |
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Screenplays | I own this brownstone. (Do the Right Thing; writing credit: Spike Lee) Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? (Do the Right Thing; writing credit: Spike Lee) | |
Lyrics | This little empty garden by the brownstone door (Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny); performing artist: Elton John) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Row of brownstone homes on 72nd Street, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Brownstone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Brownstone" is used about 20 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 (singular) | 70% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 30% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 "brownstone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | barna homokkő (brown-stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | arenaria (sandstone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ownstonebray pedra de construção de muralhas. (various references) varlıklı (affluent, propertied, rich, wealthy, well off, well situated, well to do, well-endowed), kumtaşı (grit, grit stone, sandstone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "brownstone": brownstones. (additional references) | |
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"Brownstone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Branstone, Braunstone, Bronshten, Bronston, Brownsdon, Brownson, Brownton, Brundstone, Brunstane. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brownstone" (pronounced brou"nstō'n) |
| 5 | -n s t ō' n | greenstone, moonstone, rhinestone. |
| 4 | -s t ō' n | bloodstone, Bluestone, capstone, cherrystone, cobblestone, cornerstone, curbstone, Eyestone, Firestone, flagstone, Freestone, gallstone, gemstone, Gladstone, Goldstone, gravestone, grindstone, hailstone, headstone, keystone, limestone, lodestone, milestone, millstone, sandstone, steppingstone, tombstone, touchstone, whetstone. |
| 3 | -t ō' n | acetone, baritone, halftone, monotone, overtone, undertone. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: brownnose. | |
-2 letters: bestrown, brownest, newborns, notornes. | |
-3 letters: bestrow, bonnets, booster, enroots, newborn, newtons, reboots, renowns, sorbent, swooner, tonners, wonners, wontons. | |
-4 letters: besnow, bestow, betons, boners, bonnes, bonnet, borons, boston, bowers, brents, browns, browse, enroot, nestor, newton, nonets, nooser, noters, owners, reboot, renown, resown, robots, rowens, sonnet, sooner, sorbet, stoner, strewn, strobe, strown, tenons, tenors. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: brownstones. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 6F 77 6E 73 74 6F 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. --- .--. -. ... - --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01101111 01110111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r o w n s t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 006F 0077 006E 0073 0074 006F 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36848189808586818071 |
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