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Definition: Croesus |
CroesusNoun1. Last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC). 2. A very wealthy man. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Croesus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | CROESUS, an ancient John D. Rockefeller, who became wealthy without trusts, the Supreme Court, or the stock market. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Croesus Rich as Croesus. Croesus, King of Lydia, was so rich and powerful that all the wise men of Greece were drawn to his court, and his name became proverbial for wealth. (B.C. 560-546.) (See Gyges.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It was said that Adrastus exiled himself to Lydia after accidentally killing his brother. King Croesus welcomed him but then Adrastus accidentally killed Croesus' son, and then committed suicide.
Croesus allied himself with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia, while preparing a campaign against Cyrus the Great of Persia in 547 BC.
Before starting his campaign he turned to the Oracle of Delphi to ask about the fate of his campaign , the priestess said: "You shall destroy a powerful empire".
Croesus, now feeling secure, launched his campaign into the Persian Empire. He was intercepted near the river Halys in central Anatolia and an undecided battle was fought. As was usual in those days, the armies would disband for winter and Croesus did accordingly. Unfortunately for him Cyrus didn't and he attacked Croesus in Sardis and captured him. It painfully became clear that the powerful empire Croesus was about to destroy was his own.
According to Herodotus, Croesus cast himself upon a funeral pyre. Other sources say that he survived and that Cyrus allowed him to live at his court as his advisor.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Croesus."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wealth | Rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae. |
Made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth. | |
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Crosswords: Croesus |
| Specialty definitions using "Croesus": Karoon ♦ Ramsay the Rich, Rich as Croesus. (references) |
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Clever | In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. (references; author: Croesus) | |
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Croesus | In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He is caught, the Croesus! it is all right. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We are often reminded that if there were bestowed on us the wealth of Croesus, our aims must still be the same, and our means essentially the same. |
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| "Croesus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Croesus" is used about 5 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| Australia | Croesus Mining NL |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
croesus | 15 |
croesus rich | 5 |
croesus mining | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Croesus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pasanik (moneybags, nob, rich, toff, wealthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крез, богаташ (moneybags, nabob, toff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | krösus (nabob, nawab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κροίσοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | krõzus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | creso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oesuscray creso. (various references) nabab (nabob). (various references) крез. (various references) creso. (various references) krösus. (various references) servetiyle ünlü lidya kralı, para babası (heeled, very rich, well heeled), krezüs, karun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "Croesus" (pronounced 'Cr[oe]"sus'): Balanoglossus, Byssus, Casus, Census, Colossus, Consensus, Jesus, metatarsus, Molossus, Narcissus, Parnassus, Prolapsus, rhesus, tarsus, Ursus, Versus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: courses, sources, sucrose. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cerous, corses, course, crosse, crouse, cruses, curses, cusser, rouses, scores, scours, scouse, serous, source, sucres. | |
-2 letters: ceros, cores, corse, coses, cress, cross, cruse, cures, curse, cusso, ecrus, euros, roses, roues, rouse, ruses, score, scour, sores, sorus, sours, souse, sucre, suers, users. | |
-3 letters: cero, cess, core, cors, coss, crus, cues, cure, curs, cuss, ecru. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bescours, carouses, choruses, chousers, closures, cornuses, corpuses, coursers, crocuses, crustose, focusers, obscures, sclerous, scourers, scourges, scouters, scrouges, sucroses. | |
+2 letters: aurochses, caroluses, carousels, carousers, chorussed, chorusses, coinsures, construes, consumers, costumers, crusadoes, customers, cynosures, discourse, fructoses, obscurest, outcurses, outscores, recourses, refocuses, resources, rosaceous, scourgers, scouthers, scrounges, sericeous, slouchers, sorcerous, stuccoers, subsector, successor, succorers, succories, supercops, uncrossed, uncrosses. | |
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