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AUGEAN STABLE

Definition: AUGEAN STABLE

AUGEAN STABLE

1. (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: AUGEAN STABLE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Uncleanness

Sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Photo Album: AUGEAN STABLE

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To sweep the Augean Stable. For President, Andrew Jackson. For Vice-President, John C. Calhoun. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cleansing the Augean stable. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: AUGEAN STABLE

Language Translations for "AUGEAN STABLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

Augiasstal (Augean). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Augiasstal. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

aĆ­gia stalo. (various references)

   

German

  

Augiasstall (augean stables). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

augeanay ablestay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: AUGEAN STABLE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Stomoxys calcitrans. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: AUGEAN STABLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-e-g-l-n-s-t-u"

-3 letters: ablegates, abnegates, angulates, stageable, uneatable.

-4 letters: ablegate, abluents, abnegate, angulate, eatables, euglenas, galateas, gustable, languets, nauseate, nestable, stealage, subagent, tableaus, tuneable, unstable.

-5 letters: ablates, ablauts, abluent, agnates, albatas, anatase, angelus, anlages, atabals, baguets, balatas, baleens, bangles, beagles, belugas, blunges, bungees, bungles, butanes, butenes, eaglets, eatable, elegant, eluants, eluates, eluents, enables, engluts, euglena, galatea.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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