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Definition: Ironweed |
IronweedNoun1. Any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ironweed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Synonym: IronweedSynonym: vernonia (n). (additional references) |
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The movie was adapted by William Kennedy from his novel. It was directed by Hector Babenco.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jack Nicholson) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Meryl Streep).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ironweed."
Crosswords: Ironweed |
| English words defined with "ironweed": golden ironweed ♦ yellow ironweed. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ironweed (1987) | |
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| "Ironweed" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ironweed" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ironweed": golden ironweed ♦ yellow ironweed. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ironweed | 25 |
ironweed press | 5 |
ironweed kennedy william | 2 |
ironweed species vernonia | 2 |
fiction ironweed press prize | 2 |
by ironweed kennedy william | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ironweed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | "草. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 섬꼬리'. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ironweeday | ||||
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Words beginning with "ironweed": ironweeds. (additional references) | |
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"Ironweed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bronwydd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: downier, endower, reendow, rewiden, widener. | |
-2 letters: denier, dewier, dinero, downer, erenow, ironed, nereid, oreide, redone, reined, rewind, weiner, weirdo, wiener, winder, wonder. | |
-3 letters: diene, diner, donee, dower, dowie, drone, drown, dwine, eider, ender, endow, erode, indow, irone, newer, newie, owned, owner, redon, renew, rewed, rewin, rewon, rowed, rowen, weird, widen, wider, wined, wired. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: eiderdown, ironweeds, rosinweed. | |
+2 letters: disendower, eiderdowns, reendowing, rosinweeds. | |
+3 letters: deflowering, disendowers, interworked, rowdinesses, wordinesses. | |
+4 letters: drowsinesses, overwintered. | |
+5 letters: cordwaineries, unbowdlerized, worldlinesses. | |
| 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)49 72 6F 6E 77 65 65 64 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-. --- -. .--. . . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01110010 01101111 01101110 01110111 01100101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I r o n w e e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0072 006F 006E 0077 0065 0065 0064 |
| 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)4384818089717170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국 |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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