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13 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• cowan n. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
• cowan n. (Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the…
• cowan n. (Slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
• cowan n. (In attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
• cowan n. (Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
• Cowan prop.n. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”).
• Cowan prop.n. A surname from Irish; an anglicization of mac Eógain (“son of Owen”).
• Cowan prop.n. A Jewish surname from Hebrew; a variant of Cohen.
• Cowan prop.n. A city in Tennessee; named after Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived…
• Cowan prop.n. A town in New South Wales. Apparently an anglicization of a Yuin-Kuric word meaning “big water”.
• Cowan prop.n. A town in Manitoba.
• Cowan prop.n. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Cornish
  • cowan n. Owl.

92 English words from 13 English definitions

after anglicization Apparently apprenticeship attempts attributive Benjamin big boat California census census-designated␣place city Civil Civil␣War Cohen County Cowan designated doctor era Ewen experienced family fishing fishing␣boat Freemason Freemasonry from Gaelic had has having Hebrew himself inquisitive Irish James Jewish lived mac Manitoba meaning named New New␣South␣Wales not obsolete of␣a off outside Owen Owl pass person place profane prying rare Scotland Scottish Scottish␣Gaelic served Slang sneak son South South␣Wales Stanislaus Stanislaus␣County States stone stonemason surname Tennessee the town Uninitiated United United␣States unmortared use variant Wales War water who whose without word worker Yuin-Kuric

4 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

cowans Cowans cowanis Cowanses

2 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

McOwans McCowans

2 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

McOwan McCowan

7 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cow COW OWA wan Wan WAN wan-

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

naw WOC

15 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

acknow ant␣cow canows con␣law consaw Conway cowans Cowans cowman Cowman McOwan Nowack Wacoan Weanoc woncha

8 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Coan naow NOAC OCAW ONCA onça Waco WOCA

21 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

coban Cogan Cohan Coman Conan copan coran Coran cowal cowen Cowen Cowin coyan gowan Gowan Iowan Jowan kowan powan rowan Rowan

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

Coan

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

cowman Cowman

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