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Definition: Electra |
ElectraNoun1. (Greek mythology) the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; persuaded her brother (Orestes) to avenge Agamemnon's death by helping her to kill Clytemnestra and her lover (Aegisthus). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Electra" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "amber". |
Date "Electra" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"Electra" is a common misspelling or typo for: electric. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ELECTRA | English | Electronic learning environment for continual training and research in ALMA(Aachen,Liège,Maastricht and Diepenbeek/Hasselt) | N/A |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Eight years later Electra returned from Athens with her brother, Orestes. (Odyssey, iii. 306; X. 542). According to Pindar (Pythia, xi. 25), Orestes was saved by his old nurse or by Electra, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.
In his twentieth year, Orestes was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and avenge his father's death. According to Aeschylus, he met Electra before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge.
Orestes, after the deed (sometimes with Electra helping), goes mad, and is pursued by the Erinyes, or Furies), whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety. Electra is not hounded by the Erinyes.
Orestes takes refuge in the temple at Delphi. Even though Apollo (to whom the Delphic temple was dedicated) had ordered him to do the deed, he is powerless to protect Orestes from the consequences of his actions.
At last Athene (also known as Areia) receives him on the Acropolis of Athens and arranges a formal trial of the case before twelve Attic judges. The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads the orders of Apollo; the votes of the judges are equally divided, and Athena gives her casting vote for acquittal.
Later, Electra married Pylades, Orestes' close friend and son of King Strophius (the same one who had cared for Orestes while he hid from his mother and her lover).
Aeschylus, Oresteia; Euripides, Electra; Orestes; Apollodorus, Epitome VI, 23-28.
Electra is also the name of a play by Sophocles, written circa 410 BC, dramatizing the events recounted above. It is one of only seven plays of his of which copies still survive.
Electra is also the name of a place in the State of Texas in the United States of America: see Electra, Texas.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electra."
Crosswords: Electra |
| English words defined with "Electra": Electra complex ♦ Orestes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Electra": 76360 ♦ Danaides. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Electra (1974) Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Electra Girl Saves the World (1999) Mistress Electra (1983) Mourning Becomes Electra (1978) | |
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| "Electra" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Electra" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Electra" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "amber". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Electra." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Electra | Female | Greek Mythology (Latinized) | N/A |
| Elettra | Female | Italian | Electra |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Electra Investment Trust P.L.C. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Electra, TX (city, FIPS 22984) |
Expression using "Electra": electra complex. Additional references. | |
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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 |
carmen electra | 18,715 |
electra | 775 |
free nude carmen electra | 162 |
free pic of carmen electra | 118 |
carman electra | 112 |
naked picture of carmen electra | 112 |
naked pic of carmen electra | 91 |
free nude picture of carmen electra | 81 |
pic of carmen electra | 77 |
bike electra | 66 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Electra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Elektrakompleks (Electra complex). (various references) | |
Dutch | Elektracomplex (Electra complex), vadercomplex (Electra complex). (various references) | |
French | complexe d'Electre (Electra complex). (various references) | |
German | Elektrakomplex (Electra complex). (various references) | |
Greek | σύμπλεγμα Ηλέκτρας (Electra complex). (various references) | |
Italian | complesso di Elettra (Electra complex), complesso del padre (Electra complex). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | エル"ー盤 (aerogram, angel, elbow, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elf, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, enclosure, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engage, engagement, engagement ring, engine, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erect, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, eroticism, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | エレクトラコンプレックス (Electra complex). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | electraay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | complexo de Electra (Electra complex). (various references) | |
Spanish | complejo de Electra (Electra complex). (various references) | |
Swedish | elektrakomplex (electra complex). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Electra" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alectoria, Alectura, Electrabel, elektra, Eletha, Elettaria, Leuctra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: treacle. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: cartel, cerate, cereal, claret, create, ecarte, elater, rectal, relace, relate, tercel. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, arete, artel, caret, carle, carte, cater, clear, cleat, crate, creel, eater, eclat, elate, elect, erect, lacer, laree, later, ratel, react, recta, relet, taler, telae, terce, trace. | |
-3 letters: acre, alec, alee, care, carl, cart, cate, celt, cere, cete, earl, lace, late, lear, leer, leet, race, rale, rate, real, reel, rete, tace, tael, talc, tale, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, tree. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ale, alt, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cee, cel, ear, eat, eel, era, ere, eta, lac, lar, lat, lea, lee, let, rat, rec, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee, tel. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, ar, at, el, er, et, la, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: bracelet, cellaret, cervelat, clearest, corelate, decretal, excretal, lacerate, praelect, raclette, relocate, retackle, treacles, ulcerate. | |
+2 letters: altercate, bracelets, bracteole, calenture, cartelise, cartelize, cartwheel, celebrant, celebrate, cellarets, centraler, cervelats, clattered, clatterer, coeternal, corelated, corelates, correlate, craterlet, crenulate, decaliter, decretals, electoral, electuary, erectable, heretical, interlace, lacerated, lacerates, latecomer, percolate, praelects, raclettes, rectangle, relocated, relocatee, relocates, reluctate, replicate, retackled, retackles, teacherly, tolerance, traceable, traceless, tracheole, trochleae, ulcerated, ulcerates, urceolate. | |
+3 letters: accelerant, accelerate, altarpiece, altercated, altercates, bracteoles, brocatelle, calentures, cantilever, carpellate, cartelised, cartelises, cartelized, cartelizes, cartwheels, celebrants, celebrated, celebrates, celebrator, cellarette, centralest, centralise, centralize, clatterers, coelentera, coleoptera, correlated, correlates, craterlets, craterlike, creatively, creaturely, credential, creditable, crenelated, crenulated, decaliters, decelerate, ectodermal, edulcorate, electorate, electrical, elucubrate, epicentral, eremitical, extricable, forecastle, hermetical, interlaced, interlaces, lacerative, latecomers, linecaster, literacies, mercantile, operculate, perceptual, percolated, percolates, praelected, preethical, reactively, reallocate, receptacle, rectangles, reescalate, refractile, relocatees, reluctance, reluctated, reluctates, replicated, replicates, resectable, reticulate, retractile, tabernacle, telecaster, tolerances, trabeculae, tracheoles, trancelike, ulcerative, unclearest. | |
+4 letters: accelerants, accelerated, accelerates, accelerator, aeroelastic, aliteracies, altarpieces, bleacherite, brocatelles, calorimeter, cantilevers, carefullest, cartwheeled, cartwheeler, caterwauled, celebrating, celebration, celebrators, celebratory, cellarettes, centralised, centralises, centralized, centralizer, centralizes, centripetal, certifiable, chanterelle, chanticleer, coldhearted, coleopteran, copperplate, correctable, correlative, counterplea, credentials, crenelation, crenellated, crestfallen, decelerated, decelerates, decelerator, declarative, decremental, edulcorated, edulcorates, elastomeric, electorally, electorates, electrician, electrogram, electroweak, electuaries, elucubrated, elucubrates, excremental, executorial, extractable, forecastles, geometrical, glabrescent, glycerinate, heretically, incremental, intercalate, intercensal, intolerance, leatherback, leatherneck, letterspace, linecasters, marketplace, operculated, pearlescent, perchlorate, perithecial, plecopteran, praelecting, predictable, prefectural, projectable, reallocated, reallocates, recalculate, recalibrate, receptacles, recirculate, rectifiable, rectilinear, recultivate, reduplicate, reescalated, reescalates, reflectance, reinoculate, relocatable, relubricate, reluctances, replacement, replicative, respectable, respectably, reticulated, reticulates, retractable, revictualed, secretarial, stretchable, tabernacled, tabernacles, telecasters, telegraphic, theoretical, trabeculate, tuberculate, ultrasecret, untraceable, vermiculate, vorticellae, watercooler. | |
+5 letters: accelerating, acceleration, accelerative, accelerators, accreditable, acetonitrile, antielectron, atheoretical, bachelorette, bleacherites, calorimeters, cantilevered, cartwheelers, cartwheeling, celebrations, centralities, centralizers, cephalometry, chanterelles, chanticleers, clearstories, coelenterate, coleopterans, concelebrant, concelebrate, conferential, conglomerate, copperplates, correlatable, correlatives, counterpleas, craftspeople, credentialed, crenelations, crenellation, cybernetical, decelerating, deceleration, decelerators, decentralize, dechlorinate, decoratively, detractively, electrically, electricians, electrograms, electroplate, endotracheal, enterococcal, esoterically, exoterically, extractively, extranuclear, forecastable, frenetically, glycerinated, glycerinates, gracefullest, hermetically, heterocercal, illiteracies, inextricable, inoperculate, interallelic, intercalated, intercalates, interchannel, internuclear, intolerances, leatherbacks, leathernecks, lectionaries, letterspaces, marketplaces, merchantable, meteorically, meteoritical, methacrylate, neorealistic, nomenclature, olfactometer, perceptional, perceptually, perchlorates, perspectival, phylacteries, plecopterans, precentorial, preceptorial, precipitable, preeclamptic, prosecutable, reaccelerate, rearticulate, recalculated, recalculates, recalibrated, recalibrates, recapitalize, recapitulate, recirculated, recirculates, recreational, recultivated, recultivates, reduplicated, reduplicates, reescalating, reescalation, reflectances, reflectional, refractively, reinoculated, reinoculates, relubricated, relubricates, reluctancies, replacements, respectables, reticulately, retinotectal, revictualled, secularities, tetracycline, translucence, tuberculated, ultraprecise, uncelebrated, uncorrelated, vermiculated, verticalness, verticillate, watercoolers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 65 63 74 72 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. . -.-. - .-. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l e c t r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0072 0061 |
| 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)39787169868467 |
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