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Definition: Eurydice |
EurydiceNoun1. (Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Eurydice" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a wide justice", "wide", "a justice". |
Date "Eurydice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
| 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 |
EURYDICE | English | Education information network in the European Community | Computing, Education |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Eurydice |
| English words defined with "Eurydice": Orpheus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Eurydice": Colt's-tooth ♦ Danaides, Dryads ♦ Nosnot-Bocai ♦ Orfeo and Heurodis, ORPHEUS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Orphée et Eurydice (1999) Orpheus and Eurydice (1984) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Orpheus and Eurydice.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Eurydice" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eurydice" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
orpheus and eurydice | 26 |
eurydice | 15 |
eurydice orfeo | 4 |
buffy eurydice site | 3 |
eurydice orpheus picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Eurydice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Informationsnet for uddannelse inden for Det Europæiske Fællesskab (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Net voor uitwisseling van informatie over onderwijs in de Europese Gemeenschap (Education information network in the European Community), Informatienet voor Onderwijs in de Europese Gemeenschap (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Réseau d'Information sur l'Education dans la Communauté Européenne (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Informationsnetz für das Bildungswesen in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Education information network in the European Community), Bildungsinformationsnetz in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | "ίκτυο πληροφόρησης για την παιδεία στην Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα (Education information network in the European Community), "ίκτυο Εκπαιδευτικών ληροφοριών στην Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Rete d'informazione sull'istruzione nella Comunit europea (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eurydiceay Rede de Informação sobre Educação na Comunidade Europeia (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) Red de Información sobre la Educación en la Comunidad Europea (Education information network in the European Community). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: decury, deicer, reduce, ureide. | |
-3 letters: ceder, cered, cider, creed, cried, crude, curdy, cured, curie, cyder, decry, deice, deuce, dicer, dicey, educe, eider, eyrie, redye, reedy, riced, ureic. | |
-4 letters: cede, cedi, cere, cire, crud, cued, curd, cure, deer, dere, dice, dire, dree, duce, duci, dure, dyer, ecru, eery, eide, eyed, eyer, eyre, iced, ired. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-u-y" | |
+3 letters: reductively. | |
+5 letters: destructively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 72 79 64 69 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..- .-. -.--. -.. .. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 01110010 01111001 01100100 01101001 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u r y d i c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 0072 0079 0064 0069 0063 0065 |
| 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)3987849170756971 |
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