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Date "AMPHITRITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Amphitrite (either 3 or 4 syl.) The sea. In classic mythology, the wife of Neptune (Greek, amphi-trio for tribo, rubbing or wearing away [the shore] on all sides). "His weary chariot sought the bowers Of Amphitritë and her tending nymphs." Thomson: Summer. (1625--6). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Amphitrite ("the third one who encircles (the sea)") was so entirely confined in her authority to the sea and the creatures in it, that she was never associated with her husband either for purposes of worship or in works of art, except when he was to be distinctly regarded as the god who controlled the sea.
She was one of the Nereids, and distinguishable from the others only by her queenly attributes. It was said that Poseidon saw her first dancing at Naxos among the other Nereids, and carried her off. But in another version of the myth, she then fled from him to the farthest ends of the sea, where the dolphin of Poseidon found her, and was rewarded by being placed among the stars.
Poseidon had one son by Amphitrite, Triton and a daughter, Rhode.
In works of art she is represented either enthroned beside him, or driving with him in a chariot drawn by sea-horses or other fabulous creatures of the deep, and attended by Tritons and Nereids. She is dressed in queenly robes and has nets in her hair. The pincers of a lobster are sometimes attached to her temple.
In poetry, her name is often used for the sea.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amphitrite."
Crosswords: AMPHITRITE |
| Specialty definitions using "AMPHITRITE": Sea Deities. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Neptune et Amphitrite (1899) | |
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 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. This polychaete, Amphitrite sp., builds and dwells in a tube constructed of mud. The worm's white tentacles, used to build its tube and gather food particles, and red gills can be seen in this photo. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Photographed prior to her World War I Navy service. Acquired by the Navy on 21 May 1918 as USS Amphitrite (ID # 3028), she was renamed USS Nerita on 8 November 1918. She was stricken on 3 March 1919 and transferred to the War Department on 4 March 1920. Credit: NAVY. |
 | View of the Academy waterfront area, circa 1869, looking northeast from the tower of "New Quarters". The twin-turret monitor moored in the Severn River, at left, is USS Tonawanda (renamed Amphitrite in 1869). Ships at the pier in right center are USS Dale and USS Santee. Credit: NAVY. |  | Ships in the Severn River, off the Naval Academy, circa 1866-1870. They are (from left): an unidentified "Double-ender" gunboat; USS Tonawanda (renamed Amphitrite in 1869); and USS America (1862-1873). Credit: NAVY. |
 | U.S.S. Amphitrite. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "AMPHITRITE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMPHITRITE" is used about 3 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 (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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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 |
amphitrite | 8 |
amphitrite neptune triumph | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "AMPHITRITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | αμφιτρύτη. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | amphitriteay anfitrita. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-i-m-p-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: teraphim. | |
-3 letters: airtime, imitate, imperia, partite, pithier, primate. | |
-4 letters: armpit, attire, hamper, hatter, hermai, hermit, hitter, imaret, impair, impart, matter, mither, mitier, patter, pattie, permit, pirate, pitier, ratite, tamper, tephra, teraph, thairm, thiram, threap, threat, tither. | |
-5 letters: aimer, airth, apter, armet, atrip, earth, harem, hater, heart, herma, ihram, irate, ither, mater, matte, merit, mirth. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-i-m-p-r-t-t" | |
+3 letters: amphitheatric. | |
+5 letters: amphitheatrical, hypermutability. | |
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