houma
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city, the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
name
A county-level city of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
Example Sentences
- "For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, the goal now is to bring their community back together. But Sanders said the reality was more complex as some residents identify with another tribe - the Houma Nation - while others have no tribal affiliation. The funds will be spent on helping all those living on Isle de Jean Charles to move."
- "Comardelle - who left the island for the city of Houma in southeast Louisiana - splits her life between raising her family and the fight for her people's future, and has spent so much time in the office that her three children keep toys there."
- "In hard-hit Houma, the dismal reality of life without air conditioning, refrigeration or other more basic needs began to sink in."
- "Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit."
- "“Team No. 14 arrived at Linfen on the 2nd of February. The fighting in that area was in the vicinity of Houma, but the situation is now stabilized and there lias been no fighting since the arrival of the team."
- "Between 1969 and 1970 continued excavation of sacrificial pits at the site of the State of Tsin¹⁰ at Houma, Shansi Province, yielded the bones of sacrificial oxen, horses and sheep, jade blades and slips, and other relics from the 5th century B.C."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
Hou-ma (alternative)