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Definitions: Orphic |
OrphicAdjective1. Ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus. 2. Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Orphic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Etymology: Orphic \Or"phic\, adjective. [Latin expression Orphicus, Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: OrphicSynonyms: mysterious (adj), mystic (adj), mystical (adj), occult (adj), secret (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Orphic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Orphic" is used about 25 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
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 |
the orphic hymn | 2 |
orphic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Orphic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | orfik, profetik (fateful, fatidical, oracular, predictive, Sibylline, vatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أورفيوسى ذو علاقة بأرفيوس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тайнствен (cabbalistic, eerie, eery, impenetrable, mysterious, mystic, uncanny, unearthly, unsearchable), орфически, оракулски (oracular), очарователен (adorable, alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, raving, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winning, winsome), пророчески (apocalyptic, fateful, fatidical, mantic, oracular, predictive, prophetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ορφικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | orfikus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orphicay orfeu, oracular (oracular), misterioso (arcane, daedal, eery, impenetrable, mysterious, occult, oracular, recondite, subtil, subtile, subtle, uncanny, unsearchable, weird), arrebatador (catchy, enchantment, enthrone, entrancing, fairy, impetuous, magic, magical, rapturous, ravishing, ripping, thrilling, vibrant), órfico (orphean). (various references) орфический, мистический (mystic, mystical, numinous). (various references) orfejski, tajanstven (arcane, dark, eldritch, hidden, mysterious, occult, secretive), mističan (mystic, mystical). (various references) órfico (orphean). (various references) เกี่ยวกับ Orpheus. (various references) orfeus'a özgü, orfeus müziğine ait. (various references) чарівний, як музика орфея, та"мничий (cabbalistic, cryptic, eldritch, esoteric, mysterious, mystical, occult, orphean, secretive, unearthly, weird), орфічний, містичний (cabbalistic, mystic, mystical, non-natural, orphean). (various references) bí hiểm (cabbalistic, recondite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Orphic": orphical, orphically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Orphic": actinomorphic, allelomorphic, allomorphic, anamorphic, anthropomorphic, biomorphic, dimorphic, ectomorphic, enantiomorphic, endomorphic, geomorphic, gerontomorphic, gynandromorphic, halomorphic, hemimorphic, heteromorphic, homeomorphic, homomorphic, hydromorphic, hypomorphic, idiomorphic, isomorphic, meromorphic, mesomorphic, metamorphic, monomorphic, morphic, paedomorphic, pleomorphic, polymorphic, pseudomorphic, theriomorphic, trimorphic, zoomorphic, zygomorphic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Orphic": anthropomorphically, isomorphically, metamorphically, polymorphically. (additional references) | |
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"Orphic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dorlhac, ophis, orchic, orhoit, orohai, orphee, Orphy, Orplid, Orshi, ropic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Orphic" (pronounced ô"rfik) |
| 5 | ô" r f i k | anthropomorphic, dimorphic, metamorphic, polymorphic. |
| 3 | -f i k | autotrophic, calligraphic, catastrophic, choreographic, delphic, demographic, epigraphic, ethnographic, geographic, geostrophic, graphic, heterotrophic, hieroglyphic, holographic, honorific, horrific, hydrographic, lithographic, logographic, micrographic, nonspecific, oceanographic, orographic, Pacific, philosophic, photographic, pornographic, prolific, pseudoscientific, reprographic, scientific, specific, stenographic, stereographic, stratigraphic, terrific, topographic, traffic, transpacific, unscientific. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: chiro, chirp, choir, ichor, porch. | |
-2 letters: chip, chop, coir, crop, rich. | |
-3 letters: chi, cop, cor, hic, hip, hop, ich, orc, phi, pic, poh, poi, pro, rho, rip, roc. | |
-4 letters: hi, ho, oh, op, or, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: morphic, pibroch, trophic. | |
+2 letters: atrophic, choppier, euphoric, hydropic, orphical, pibrochs, poachier, pouchier, prochain, prochein, strophic, whipcord. | |
+3 letters: anaphoric, anthropic, bishopric, chipboard, chiropody, copyright, coryphaei, courtship, dimorphic, dysphoric, eutrophic, hippocras, hyperopic, hypocrisy, hypocrite, microchip, morphemic, nephrotic, orthoepic, parochial, pharaonic, pitchfork, plethoric, prophasic, prophetic, prothetic, rhapsodic, whipcords. | |
+4 letters: acrophobia, amphoteric, anamorphic, aphoristic, archbishop, biographic, biomorphic, biospheric, bishoprics, brachiopod, bryophytic, cataphoric, censorship, childproof, chipboards, choppering, chromophil, copyrights, courtships, cryophilic, doctorship, dystrophic, exospheric, factorship, geographic, geomorphic, helicopter, hydroponic, hyperbolic, hypergolic, hypersonic, hypertonic, hypocorism, hypocrites, hypodermic, isomorphic, metaphoric, microchips, micrograph, microphage, microphone, microphyll, morphactin, morphemics, nephrotics, orographic, orphically, orthopedic, phosphoric, pictograph, pitchforks, pleochroic, pronephric, prophecies, prosthetic, pyrophoric, rectorship, rhinoscopy, sarcophagi, schizocarp, sophomoric, spirochete, splotchier, trimorphic, xerophytic, zoomorphic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 72 70 68 69 63 |
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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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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- .-. .--. .... .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O r p h i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0072 0070 0068 0069 0063 |
| 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)498482747569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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Arabies, arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic; Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, الهنغاري, مجري, هنغاري, المجري, اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian; Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese; Russies, Rus, الروسية, روسي, اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian; 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, for Serbo-Croatian; Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish; Tailandes, 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰国, 泰 , thailænder, Thailander, Thai, Thais, thailendskt, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 泰語 , たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, คนไทย, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tayland, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський, for Thai; Turks, turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish; 乌克兰, for Ukranian; Vietnamees, vietnamez, vietnamisht, виетнамски език, виетнамски, Vietnamis, 越南語 , 越南 , 越南语, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamec, vietnamština, vietnameser, vjetmanskt, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, Fjetnameesk, vietnamese, vietnamesisch, Vietnamesin, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, ベトナ 人 , ベトナ じ", 트남, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnam, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt, for Vietnamese; 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