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Definition: ODEON |
ODEONNoun1. A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances. |
Date "ODEON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Crosswords: ODEON |
| English words defined with "ODEON": Odeum. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ODEON": Melodeon ♦ nickelodeon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ODEON" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (odeum), Romanian (odeum), Serbo-Croatian (odeum), Turkish (odeon, odeum). |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Such things will happen as long as they go and read the papers under the arches of the Odeon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ODEON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 56.67% of the time. "ODEON" is used about 60 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) | 56.67% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.67% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (common) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Germany | Odeon Film AG |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ODEON": odeon-fronted, odeon-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ODEON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | odeon (odeum), tiyatro binası (odeum). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ODEON": odeons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ODEON": melodeon, nickelodeon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ODEON": melodeons, nickelodeons. (additional references) | |
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"ODEON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bodafon, Douyon, Modeno, Oddson, odean, odeo, odion, Odizor, O'donn, oedon, Otieno, Oudinot, Rodion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ODEON" (pronounced ō"dēun) |
| 5 | ō" d ē u n | collodion, custodian, nickelodeon. |
| 4 | -d ē u n | accordion, arcadian, circadian, comedian, Guardian, median, meridian, obsidian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | agrarian, alien, amphibian, authoritarian, barbarian, bohemian, Campion, carrion, centenarian, centurion, chameleon, champion, Clarion, contrarian, criterion, Cyprian, disciplinarian, draconian, egalitarian, equestrian, galleon, gorgonian, halcyon, herculean, historian, humanitarian, hyperborean, lesbian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, mammalian, mediterranean, Napoleon, nonsectarian, oblivion, octogenarian, ovarian, pagurian, parliamentarian, pedestrian, planarian, plutonian, praetorian, presbyterian, proletarian, salutatorian, scorpion, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, utopian, valedictorian, valerian, vegetarian, veterinarian. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: done, node. | |
-2 letters: den, doe, don, end, eon, nod, noo, ode, one. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: mooned, nodose, noodge, noodle, noosed, odeons, wooden. | |
+2 letters: bookend, condoes, condole, condone, crooned, doggone, doormen, duotone, eidolon, endopod, fordone, goodmen, hoedown, honored, noodged, noodges, noodled, noodles, odonate, onefold, outdone, ozonide, secondo, snooded, snooked, snooled, snooped, snooted, snoozed, spooned, swooned, unwooed, woodhen, woodmen. | |
+3 letters: bentwood, bookends, canoodle, chenopod, cocooned, cojoined, cologned, comedown, condoled, condoler, condoles, condoned, condoner, condones, condores, connoted, consoled, convoked, convoyed, cordoned, cottoned, creodont, demotion, devotion, doblones, doggoned, doggoner, doggones, dominoes, downcome, duotones, eidolons, endopods, endorsor, endosmos, endosome, endozoic, enrooted, foredone, frondose, goodness, hoedowns, honchoed, honoured, idoneous, kimonoed, loosened, marooned, melodeon, monocled, monodies, monopode, monoxide, moonseed, motioned, nextdoor, nobodies, nodulose, noontide, odonates, omnimode, optioned, overdone, overfond, ozonated, ozonides, ozonised, ozonized, pinewood, poisoned, proponed, ratooned, rodeoing, snoozled, solenoid, stegodon, uncooked, uncooled, unhooded, unhooked, unloosed, unmoored, unroofed, unrooted, unwooded, wanderoo, woodbine, woodener, woodenly, woodhens, woodnote, woodsmen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 44 45 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)--- -.. . --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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