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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Golden Apple "What female heart can gold despise? " (Gray) In allusion to the fable of Atalanta, the swiftest of all mortals. She vowed to marry only that man who could outstrip her in a race. Milanion threw down three golden apples, and Atalanta, stopping to pick them up, lost the race. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Motive | Inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation, allective; temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GOLDEN APPLE |
| English words defined with "GOLDEN APPLE": apple of discord. (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 |
golden apple | 49 |
golden apple award | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GOLDEN APPLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gul mombinblomme (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mopè (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prune mombine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gelbpflaume (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin), gelbe Mombinpflaume (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σποδιάς η χρυσόκαρπος (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oldengay appleay jobo (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin). (various references) gult balsamplommon (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin), svinplommon (hog plum, Jamaica plum, yellow mombin). (various references) eurafal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Spondias lutea, Spondias mombin. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-l-l-n-o-p-p" | |
-3 letters: anglepod, galloped, panelled, pollened. | |
-4 letters: alleged, allonge, angeled, deplane, galleon, galoped, gleaned, glopped, lapeled, paneled, peonage, peopled. | |
-5 letters: allege, aneled, angled, apogee, append, dangle, dapple, depone, dognap, dongle, elodea, eloped, galled, gallon, gallop, gaoled, gapped, gelled, goaled, golden, lagend, lapdog, lapped, leaden, leaned, leaped, legend, loaned, longed, lopped, napped, opened, palled, panged, pealed. | |
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