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Definition: Mnemosyne |
MnemosyneNoun1. (Greek mythology) the Titaness who was goddess of memory; mother of the Muses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Mnemosyne" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Etymology: Mnemosyne \Mne*mos"y*ne\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression remembrance, memory, and the goddess of memory. See Mnemonic.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Mnemosyne (4 syl.). Goddess of memory and mother of the nine Muses. (Classical mythology.) The best representation of this goddess is by A. R. Mengs, the "Raphael of Germany" (1720-1779). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mnemosyne was also the name for a river in Hades, counterpart to Lethe, according to certain gnostic groups in ancient Greece. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated. Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mnemosyne."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Art of memory, artificial memory; memoria technica; mnemonics, mnemotechnics; phrenotypics; Mnemosyne. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mnemosyne |
| English words defined with "Mnemosyne": Muse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Mnemosyne": Muses. (references) |
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Music |
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| "Mnemosyne" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mnemosyne" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
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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 |
mnemosyne | 17 |
greek mnemosyne myth | 2 |
greek mnemosyne mythology | 2 |
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| Words rhyming with "Mnemosyne" (pronounced 'Mne*mos"y*ne'): Abalone, Abietene, Acanthine, Acarine, Acauline, Accipitrine, Acervuline, Acetone, Acetophenone, Acetylene, Acne, Acolyctine, Aconitine, Actinophone, Adamantine, Advene, Aerophone, Affine, Agatine, Aitchbone, Alabastrine, Alanine, Aldine, Aleurone, Aliene, Aline, Alkaline, Allylene, Almandine, Almondine, Alphonsine, Alpigene, Alpine, Alumine, Alvine, Amandine, Amanitine, Amaranthine, Amarine, Amethystine, Amine, Amphigene, Amphopeptone, Amygdaline, Amylene, Anatine, Andesine, Andine, Androgyne, Angevine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-m-n-n-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: moneymen. | |
-3 letters: moneys, yeomen. | |
-4 letters: enemy, memes, memos, mense, mesne, meson, momes, money, mosey, neems, nenes, neons, nomen, nomes, nones, nosey, omens, semen, sonny. | |
-5 letters: emes, eons, eyen, eyes, eyne, meme, memo, mems, meno, mome, moms, mons, mony, neem, nene, neon, noes, nome, noms, none, nose, nosy, omen, ones, oyes, seem, seen, seme, sene. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-m-n-n-o-s-y" | |
+4 letters: unemployments. | |
+5 letters: nonemployments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6E 65 6D 6F 73 79 6E 65 |
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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)-- -. . -- --- ... -.--. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101110 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110011 01111001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M n e m o s y n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006E 0065 006D 006F 0073 0079 006E 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)478071798185918071 |
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