Walkabout

Definitions: Walkabout

Walkabout

Noun

1. A walking trip or tour.

2. A public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally.

3. (Australia) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine.

Date "walkabout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

Modern Usage: Walkabout

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Walkabout (1998)

Whicker Walkabout (1970)

Walkabout (1946)

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

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Specialty Definition: Walkabout

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Walkabout, 1971 is an Australian film directed by Nicolas Roeg based on a book by James Vance Marshall. A young girl and her young brother are stranded in the Australian outback and encounter a young Australian Aborigine boy who goes on a walkabout with them, an initiatory rite of passage. He saves them but runs into some trouble himself.

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

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Commercial Usage: Walkabout

Domain	Title
Books	Gone Boy: A Walkabout (reference) Goneboy: A Walkabout [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Rocky Mountain Walkabout (reference) Walkabout (reference) Wombat Goes Walkabout (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Walkabout - Criterion Collection (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Walkabout

"Walkabout" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.44% of the time. "Walkabout" is used about 61 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)	93.44%	57	44,859
Noun (proper)	3.28%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.64%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	1.64%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	61	N/A

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

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Expression: Walkabout

Expression using "walkabout": royal walkabout. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Walkabout

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
walkabout	155	bar walkabout	4
director walkabout	76	walkabout james vance marshall	3
lenny walkabout	24	walkabout treatment.com	3
walkabout movie	18	book walkabout	3
computer walkabout	16	by james vance walkabout	3
program walkabout wilderness	10	pc tablet walkabout	3
walkabout treatment	9	agutter jenny walkabout	3
pub walkabout	6	tablet walkabout	3
walkabout program	6	boat walkabout	3
walkabout hammerhead	6	hint lenny walkabout	3
motorola walkabout	6	london walkabout	2
golf walkabout	6	walkabout shoes	2
inn walkabout	5	marmot walkabout	2
walkabout by james vance marshall	5	lennys walkabout	2
walkabout farm	5	outback soup walkabout	2
wilderness walkabout	4	walkabout film	2
course golf walkabout	4	project walkabout	2
therapy walkabout wilderness	4	walkabout international	2
camp walkabout wilderness	4	lenny loosejocks walkabout	2
soup walkabout	4	gpr walkabout	2
		atx walkabout	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Walkabout

Language		Translations for "walkabout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		пеший туризм. (various references)

Swedish		promenad (esplanade, perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll, walk, walking, wander). (various references)

Turkish		halkın arasında dolaşma, gezinme (ramble, roam, saunter, strolling, tramp, wandering), dolaşma (circuit, going around, implication, kink, perambulation, ride, roam, Sally, winding). (various references)

Ukranian		піший туризм. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Walkabout

Derivations
	Words beginning with "walkabout": walkabouts. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Walkabout

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-k-l-o-t-u-w"
	-2 letters: outbawl, outwalk, walkout.
	-3 letters: ablaut, outlaw, taluka.
	-4 letters: about, baulk, bloat, koala, tabla, taluk, tubal.
	-5 letters: abut, alba, alow, alto, auto, awol, baal, balk, bawl, blat, blaw, blot, blow, boat, bola, bolt, bota, bout, bowl, bulk, kata, kola, lota, lout, tabu, taka, tala, talk, tola, tolu, tuba, walk, wauk, waul.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-k-l-o-t-u-w"
	+1 letter: walkabouts.
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