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Definition: Macaw |
MacawNoun1. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "macaw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Note: Macaw \Ma*caw"\, noun. [From the native name in the Antilles.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Macaw |
| English words defined with "macaw": Maracan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "macaw": macaw worm fly. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Real Macaw (1998) | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Macaw bird sounds. |
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| "Macaw" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Macaw" is used about 21 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) | 66.67% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "macaw": Hyacinthine macaw ♦ Macaw bush ♦ Macaw palm ♦ Macaw tree ♦ macaw worm fly. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "macaw": macaw-worm. | |
| 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 |
macaw | 2,884 |
scarlet macaw | 386 |
blue and gold macaw | 150 |
hyacinth macaw | 81 |
macaw parrot | 59 |
hahns macaw | 56 |
severe macaw | 46 |
military macaw | 39 |
macaw picture | 35 |
bird macaw | 34 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "macaw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | arapapegaai. (various references) | |
Arabic | المقو نوع من الببغاء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вид голям пъстър папагал, ара. (various references) | |
Czech | velký tropický papoušek. (various references) | |
Danish | blaa ara (glaucous macaw). (various references) | |
Dutch | Indische papegaai, blauwe ara, ara. (various references) | |
French | ara macao (scarlet macaw), ara. (various references) | |
German | Blauara (glaucous macaw), ara. (various references) | |
Greek | μακώ, είδοσ μεγάλου παπαγάλου, είδοσ παπαγάλου (parakeet). (various references) | |
Hungarian | arapapagáj (parrakeet). (various references) | |
Italian | macao (Macau, Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), ara blu, ara (altar, are). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acawmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | arara (clothes rack, lory, parrot). (various references) | |
Russian | ара. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | makao papagaj, makao palma. (various references) | |
Spanish | lapa (barnacle, limpet), guacamayo (Ara), avacanza, aras, ara (altar stone, Ara). (various references) | |
Swedish | ara (mecaw). (various references) | |
Thai | นกแก้วหางยาวสีสันสวยงาม. (various references) | |
Turkish | amerika papağanı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | пальма (palm, palm tree). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cây cọ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anodorhynchus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "macaw": macaws. (additional references) | |
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"Macaw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaaaaw, Aaaaw, acaw, Amca, ma'a, Maca, macab, macac, Macam, macan, Macas, macau, macca, maccah, Maccam, Maccas, macid, Mackal, Mactay, macu, Macvan, maka, Makaiwa, Makau, Makowka, mamaw, manaw, mataw, mawcaw, m'car, Micad, migawd, mocar, Mussawi, Naca, Qmacmac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-m-w" | |
-2 letters: ama, awa, cam, caw, cwm, mac, maw. | |
-3 letters: aa, am, aw, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-m-w" | |
+1 letter: macaws. | |
+3 letters: maccabaw, mackinaw, watchman. | |
+4 letters: charwoman, creamware, maccabaws, mackinaws. | |
+5 letters: chairwoman, clawhammer, creamwares, watchmaker. | |
| 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)4D 61 63 61 77 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01001101 01100001 01100011 01100001 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c a w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 0061 0077 |
| 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)4767696789 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Sounds 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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