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Wiktionary
almanoun
An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment or as a professional mourner.
Almanoun
Places in the U.S., Canada, and several other countries.
Almanoun
A female given name from Latin, popular in the 19th century.
Alma she called was, a virgin bright:/ That had not yet felt Cupides wanton rage,/ Yet was she woo'd of many a gentle knight
Almanoun
One of two prophets, the Elder and the Younger, and a book in the Book of Mormon.
Almanoun
Places in the U.S.: An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. A city in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States. A ghost town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. A statutory town in Park County, Colorado, United States. A city, the county seat of Bacon County, Georgia, United States. A village in Marion County, Illinois, United States. A ghost town in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States. A small city, the county seat of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. A city in Gratiot County, Michigan, United States. A small city in Lafayette County, Missouri, United States. A small city, the county seat of Harlan County, Nebraska, United States. An unincorporated community in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. A town in Allegany County, New York, United States. An unincorporated community in Ross County, Ohio, United States. An unincorporated community in Stephens County, Oklahoma, United States. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States. A town in Ellis County, Texas, United States. An unincorporated community in Page County, Virginia, United States. A small city, the county seat of Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States. A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States. A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States.
Almanoun
Places in Canada: A village in Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. An unincorporated rural community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada. An unincorporated rural community in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada. A town in Quebec, Canada.
Etymology: Usually explained as Latin alma ("nourishing, kind"). It has also been used as a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Amal-, as in Amelia.
Webster Dictionary
Almanoun
alt. of Almah
Wikidata
Alma
Alma is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Alma
Almah, al′ma, n. an Egyptian dancing-girl.—Also Alme, Almeh. [Ar. ‛almah, learned, ‛alamah, to know.]
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Alma
a river in the Crimea, half-way between Eupatoria and Sebastopol, where the allied English, French, and Turkish armies defeated the Russians under Prince Menschikoff, Sept. 20, 1854.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
alma
A river in the Crimea, near which was fought a great battle on September 20, 1854, between the Russian and Anglo-French armies; the Russians were defeated with great loss.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
ALMA
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Alma is ranked #41359 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Alma surname appeared 526 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Alma.
49.4% or 260 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
41.4% or 218 total occurrences were White.
3.6% or 19 total occurrences were Black.
2.8% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.
1.5% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.1% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Anagrams for ALMA »
lama
mala
amla
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ALMA in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ALMA in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of ALMA in a Sentence
They are embarrassed by their alma mater and that sends a pretty powerful statement.
The fact that we found the Wolfe Disk using this method, tells us that it belongs to the normal population of galaxies present at early times, when our newest observations with ALMA surprisingly showed that it is rotating, we realized that early rotating disk galaxies are not as rare as we thought and that there should be a lot more of them out there. Thanks to ALMA, we now have unambiguous evidence that they occur as early as 1.5 billion years after Big Bang.
These last few weeks have been very dark, to be treated so shabbily by my alma mater, by a university that has given me so much and which I only sought to give back to, has been deeply painful.
Investigations of gas motion with radio telescopes may provide a complementary way to search for dark black holes, the ongoing wide area survey observations of the Milky Way with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope and high-resolution observations of nearby galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have the potential to increase the number of black hole candidates dramatically.
The light from these galaxies is very faint with long wavelengths invisible to our eyes and undetectable by Hubble, so we turned to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array( ALMA), which is ideal for viewing these kinds of things. I have a long history with that facility and so knew it would deliver good results.
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