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Definition: Creon |
CreonNoun1. (Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Creon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
"Creon" is a common misspelling or typo for: cero, crayon, cream, croon. |
Crosswords: Creon |
| Specialty definitions using "Creon": Ismene. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year. However, they showed no concern for their father, who cursed them for their negligence. After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters (the Seven Against Thebes). Both brothers died in the battle. King Creon, who ascended to the throne of Thebes, decreed that Polynices was not to be buried. Antigone, his sister, defied the order, but was caught. Creon decreed that she was to be buried alive, this in spite of her betrothal to his son Haemon. Antigone's sister, Ismene, then declared she had aided Antigone and wanted the same fate. The gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order, and he went to bury Polynices himself. However, Antigone had already hanged herself rather than be buried alive. When Creon arrived at the tomb where she was to be interred, Haemon attacked him and then killed himself. When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of their death she too took her own life.
See also Epigonoi
There was another person in Greek mythology named Creon. He was a King of Corinth and father of Creusa and Glauce. His wife sold Tisiphone into slavery.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Creon."
| "Creon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Creon" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
creon | 42 |
creon 10 | 4 |
creon antigone | 2 |
creon oedipus | 2 |
creon 20 | 2 |
creon management | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "Creon": anacreontic, anacreontics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crone, recon. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cero, cone, core, corn, once. | |
-2 letters: con, cor, eon, ern, nor, one, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-3 letters: en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: censor, cloner, coiner, confer, conger, conker, conner, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, crepon, crones, encore, orcein, reckon, recoin, recons. | |
+2 letters: acrogen, bicorne, bouncer, censors, chevron, chorine, cloners, coarsen, coenure, coenuri, coiners, coinfer, cointer, concern, concert, confers, congers, conifer, conjure, conkers, conners, conquer, convert, coreign, corneae, corneal, corneas, cornels, corners, cornets, cornfed, cornice, cornier, cornute, coronae, coronel, coroner, coronet, corvine, counter, cozener, crepons, crocein, crocine, cronies, crooned, crooner, crowned, crowner, crownet, crunode, cryogen, decrown, dorneck, enactor, encoder, encored, encores, enforce, frounce, incomer, knocker, narcose, necrose, notcher, noticer, oneiric, orceins, porcine, pouncer, reckons, recoins, recount, recrown, romance, scorned, scorner, trounce, uncover. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 65 6F 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. . --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01100101 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r e o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 0065 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3784718180 |
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