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DAKOTAS

Definition: DAKOTAS

DAKOTAS

Plural noun

1. An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in part, called Sioux.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DAKOTAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

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Crosswords: DAKOTAS

English words defined with "DAKOTAS": Alaska rein orchid, Aricara, ArikaraHabenaria unalascensis, HunkpapaSantees, Sioux. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DAKOTAS": Great Plains Conservation ProgramWaterfowl production areas. (references)

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Modern Usage: DAKOTAS

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Dakotas (1963)

In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas (1991)

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

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Commercial Usage: DAKOTAS

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Guidebook to Mining in America, Volume 1: West: The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and farther West (reference)

  • Country-fied, Life in the Dakotas (reference)

  • It Really Happened Here: Amazing Tales of Minnesota and the Dakotas (reference)

  • Lost Shawls and Pig Spleens: Folklore, Anecdotes, and Humor of the Germans from Russia in the Dakotas (reference)

  • Not Until The Combine Is Paid And Other Jokes: From the oral traditions of Germans from Russia in the Dakotas (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Usage Frequency: DAKOTAS

"DAKOTAS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DAKOTAS" is used about 31 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3162,296

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DAKOTAS

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

dodge dakotas

35

dakotas

22

dakotas restaurant

17

used dodge dakotas

8

billy j kramer the dakotas

7

dakotas dodge end pick ram ups

6

dakotas dodge lifted

5

dakotas dallas restaurant

4

dakotas tour

4

dakotas dallas

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DAKOTAS

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

Chinese 

  

达可它 (Dakota). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

다"타 (Dakota). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

akotasday.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DAKOTAS

Misspellings

"DAKOTAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dykhtau. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "DAKOTAS"

Words rhyming with "DAKOTAS" (pronounced 'Da*ko"tas'): Gibbartas, Karatas, Utas. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DAKOTAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-k-o-s-t"

-2 letters: datos, doats, katas, takas, toads.

-3 letters: ados, daks, data, dato, doat, dost, dots, kaas, kata, kats, koas, oaks, oast, oats, okas, skat, soak, soda, stoa, tads, taka, taos, task, toad, tods.

-4 letters: aas, ado, ads, ask, dak, dos, dot, kas, kat, koa, kos, oak, oat, ods, oka, sad, sat, ska, sod, sot, tad, tao, tas, tod, tsk.

-5 letters: aa, ad, as, at, do, ka, od, os, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-k-o-s-t"
 

+3 letters: skateboard, tackboards.

 

+4 letters: skateboards.

 

+5 letters: debarkations, skateboarder.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DAKOTAS


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

44 41 4B 4F 54 41 53

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)

-..    .-    -.-    ---    -    .-    ...

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

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

01000100 01000001 01001011 01001111 01010100 01000001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#65 &#75 &#79 &#84 &#65 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0041 004B 004F 0054 0041 0053

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

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

38354549543553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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