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"ARISTIDES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "best kind". |
Date "ARISTIDES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Aristides (4 syl.). Surnamed The Just. An Athenian statesman. "Then Aristides lifts his honest front, Spotless of heart; to whom the unflattering voice Of Freedom gave the noblest name of "just."" Thomson: Winter, 459-61. The British Aristides. Andrew Marvell (1620--1678). The French Aristides. Mons. Grévy, born 1813, president of the Third Republic 1879--1887, died 1891. He was a barrister by profession. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The conflict between the two leaders ended in the ostracism of Aristides, at a date variously given between 485 and 482. It is said that, on this occasion, an illiterate voter, who did not know him, came up to him, and giving him his voting sherd, desired him to write upon it the name of Aristides. The latter asked if Aristides had wronged him. "No," was the reply, "and I do not even know him, but it irritates me to lar him everywhere called the just." Early in 480 Aristides profited by the decree recalling exiles to help in the defence of Athens against ie Persian invaders, and was elected strategos for the year 480—479. In the Battle of Salamis he gave loyal support to Themistocles, and crowned the victory by landing Athenian infantry on the island of Psyttaleia and annihilating the Persian garrison stationed there.
In 479 he was re-elected strategos, and given special powers as commander of the Athenian forces at the Battle of Plataea; he is also said to have suppressed a conspiracy among some oligarchic malcontents in the army. He so won the confidence of the Ionian allies that, after revolting from the Spartan admiral Pausanias, they gave him the chief command and left him with absolute discretion in fixing the contributions of the newly formed confederacy, the Delian League. His assessment was universally accepted as equitable, and continued as the basis of taxation for the greater part of the league’s duration.
He continued to hold a predominant position in Athens. At first the seems to have remained on good terms with Themistocles, whom he is said to have helped in outwitting the Spartans over the rebuilding of the walls of Athens. He is said by some authorities to have died at Athens, by others on a journey to the Black Sea. The date of his death is given by Nepos as 468; at any rate he lived to witness the ostracism of Themistocles, towards whom he always displayed generosity but he died before the rise of Pericles. His estate seems to have suffered severely from the Persian invasions, for apparently he did not leave enough money to is defray the expenses of his burial, and it is known that his descendants even in the 4th century received state pensions.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Good Man | Model, paragon; (perfection); good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent; saint; (piety); benefactor; philanthropist; Aristides; noble liver, pattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ARISTIDES |
| English words defined with "ARISTIDES": Agnomen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ARISTIDES": Dionysos ♦ Milesian Fables. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Aristides Agramonte, M.D. : Member of the U.S.A. Yellow Fever Commission. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Economic History | Guinea-Bissau | Amilcar Cabral was assassinated in Conakry in 1973, and party leadership fell to Aristides Pereira, who later became the first president of the Republic of Cape Verde. (references) |
Human Rights | Colombia | At year's end, marine Colonel Jose Ancizar Molano Padilla (then-commander of the 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion) as well as marine Corporals Javier Fernando Guerrero, Eduardo Aristides Alvarez, and Jose Milton Caicedo were standing trial in a civilian court in Pasto for the 1995 social cleansing killings of alleged thieves Sifredy and Fredy Arboleda. (references) |
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| "ARISTIDES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "ARISTIDES" is used about 14 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) | 78.57% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
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| "ARISTIDES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "best kind". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ARISTIDES." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Aristides | Male | Ancient Greek | N/A |
| Aristide | Male | French | Aristides |
| Arisztid | Male | Hungarian | Aristides |
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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 |
aristides | 9 |
aristides de mendes sousa | 6 |
aristides royo | 5 |
aristides batista brazil | 3 |
aristides calvani | 3 |
aristides just | 2 |
jon aristides | 2 |
aristides mendes sousa | 2 |
aristides monumento nacional rojas | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ARISTIDES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | Αριστείδησ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aristidesay Arístides. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: satirised. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: diarists, diasters, disaster, disrates, satirise. | |
-2 letters: airiest, aridest, astride, dairies, daisies, diaries, diarist, diaster, dirties, disrate, disseat, dissert, ditsier, satires, staider, strides, tardies, tidiers, tirades. | |
-3 letters: aiders, airest, airted, arises, asides, assert, asters, daises, dassie, daters, deairs, deists, derats, desist, diesis, direst, driest, irades, irides, irised, irises, raised, raises, redias, resaid, resids, resist. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: carditises, dissipater. | |
+2 letters: absurdities, administers, adversities, disparities, dissipaters, distrainers, gastritides, parasitised, pediatrists. | |
+3 letters: advertisings, depositaries, dermatitises, dilatoriness, disrelations, disseminator, dissertating, dissertation, solidarities, taxidermists, vineyardists. | |
+4 letters: administrates, desiderations, discriminates, disintegrates, disorientates, disseminators, dissertations, ditransitives, editorialists, grandiosities, industrialise, interstadials, myocarditises, parasiticides, pedestrianism, radiationless, radiochemists, radioisotopes, semiaridities, semidiameters, stipendiaries, traditionless. | |
+5 letters: addressability, antidepression, antimodernists, considerations, credentialisms, derivativeness, desirabilities, dilatorinesses, disarticulates, disintegrators, dispensatories, dissertational, distributaries, endocarditises, endoparasitism, industrialised, industrialises, industrializes, inordinateness, insubordinates, maladministers, mistranscribed, modernisations, overfastidious, pedestrianisms, radiosensitive, serodiagnostic, subsidiarities, superadditions, transistorised, transistorized, trisaccharides. | |
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