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Wampum

Definitions: Wampum

Wampum

Noun

1. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.

2. Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry.

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

Date "wampum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1682. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Wampum

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

wampum

EnglishWage and manpower process utilizing machinesComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Wampum, Pennsylvania

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Wampum is a borough located in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 678.

Geography


Wampum is located at 40°53'19" North, 80°20'23" West (40.888657, -80.339650)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.5 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.4 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.17% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 678 people, 290 households, and 182 families residing in the borough. The population density is 284.5/km² (736.1/mi²). There are 310 housing units at an average density of 130.1/km² (336.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough is 97.05% White, 1.77% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.59% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 290 households out of which 24.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.0% are married couples living together, 10.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.9% are non-families. 34.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 20.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.34 and the average family size is 2.99. In the borough the population is spread out with 23.0% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 22.9% from 45 to 64, and 22.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 89.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.8 males. The median income for a household in the borough is $29,205, and the median income for a family is $36,094. Males have a median income of $31,023 versus $26,071 for females. The per capita income for the borough is $15,598. 17.9% of the population and 11.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.9% are under the age of 18 and 13.9% 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 "Wampum, Pennsylvania."

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Synonym: Wampum

Synonym: peag (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Wampum

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Money

Petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Wampum

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Image Slideshow: Wampum

Illustrations:
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Cities: Wampum


1. Wampum, PA (borough, FIPS 80880)
Location: 40.88647 N, 80.33880 W
Population (1990): 666 (308 housing units)
Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 16157
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wampum

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

  wampum

36

  wampum pa

34

  belt wampum

8

  jewelry wampum

6

  bead wampum

4

  bright dorothy lyon wampum

2

  stick wampum weave

2

  club foxwoods wampum

2
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Modern Translations: Wampum

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

Albanian

  

rruaza guaskash. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гердан от раковини у индианците, пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, purse, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, stuff, tin, vapor, vapour, wad). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νομίσματα των ερυθρόδερμων. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felfûzött indián kagylópénz. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ampumway

   

Russian 

  

ожерелье из раковин. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nanizane školjke. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kızılderililerin para olarak kullandığı boncuklar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Wampum

Derivations

Words beginning with "wampum": wampumpeag, wampumpeags, wampums. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Wampum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: waipu, wampun, wampus, wompum. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Wampum"

Words rhyming with "wampum" (pronounced 'Wam"pum'): Tarpum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Wampum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-m-m-p-u-w"

-2 letters: mump, puma.

-3 letters: amp, amu, map, maw, mum, pam, paw, umm, ump, wap.

-4 letters: am, aw, ma, mm, mu, pa, um, up.

 Words containing the letters "a-m-m-p-u-w"
 

+1 letter: wampums.

 

+4 letters: wampumpeag.

 

+5 letters: wampumpeags.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Wampum


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

57 61 6D 70 75 6D

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)

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

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

01010111 01100001 01101101 01110000 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#109 &#112 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 006D 0070 0075 006D

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

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

576779828779

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow 		5. Cities
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Abbreviations 		9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams 		13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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