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Definition: Augean |
AugeanAdjective1. Extremely dirty and corrupt; "every government ought to attend to cleaning its own Augean stables". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Augean" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Noun: difficulty; hardness; Adjective: impracticability; (impossibility); tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift. |
Uncleanness | Sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 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. |
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| "Augean" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Augean" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Augean": Augean stable ♦ augean stables ♦ cleanse the augean stables. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
augean stables | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Augean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Augiasstal (Augean stable). (various references) | |
Arabic | قذر (beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | авгиеви обори (augean stables). (various references) | |
Dutch | Augiasstal (Augean stable). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aŭgia stalo (Augean stable). (various references) | |
French | écuries d'augias (augean stables). (various references) | |
German | Augiasstall (Augean stable, augean stables). (various references) | |
Hungarian | augiász istállója (augean stables). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | augeanay.(various references) | |
Russian | авгиевы конюшня (augean stables), авгиевы конюшни (augean stables). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | augijeva štala (augean stables). (various references) | |
Spanish | augias, asqueroso (beastly, crappy, disgusting, distasteful, foul, gross, loathsome, lousy, mucky, nasty, noisome, putrid, rancid, revolting, sordid, squalid, ugly, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Swedish | augiasstall (augean stables). (various references) | |
Turkish | pis (black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), leş gibi, çok pis. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Augean" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acugen, agazan, agean, agena, angsana, Aubenas, auen, Augea, Augee, Augen, augua, Azucena, Daugava, gaughain, Maugan, Nakugen, ogean, rugbeian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Augean" (pronounced 'Au*ge"an'): Achean, Achillean, Adamantean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Basan, Biscayan, Bryozoan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Circean, Clachan, Colossean, Cowan, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Genian, Gigantean, Iroquoian, Lernean, Lethean, Lochan, Logan, Lyncean, Maccabean, Mausolean, Medicean, metazoan, Murexan, Neogaean, Nymphean, OEnocyan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-n-u" | |
-1 letter: genua. | |
-2 letters: ague, anga, gaen, gane, gaun, genu, guan. | |
-3 letters: aga, age, ana, ane, eau, eng, gae, gan, gen, gnu, gun, nae, nag. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, an, en, na, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-n-u" | |
+1 letter: guanase. | |
+2 letters: analogue, angulate, guanases, harangue, language, runagate. | |
+3 letters: analogues, angulated, angulates, argumenta, granulate, guaranies, guarantee, harangued, haranguer, harangues, languages, malaguena, megafauna, neuralgia, runagates, slanguage, sugarcane, unaverage, unbandage, undamaged, unmanaged. | |
+4 letters: antiplague, evacuating, evaluating, granulated, granulates, guaranteed, guarantees, guarantied, guaranties, haranguers, inarguable, inaugurate, langlaufer, laureating, malaguenas, megafaunae, megafaunal, megafaunas, nauseating, neuralgias, plateauing, quadrangle, slanguages, submanager, sugarcanes, unarguable, unassuaged, unbandaged, unbandages. | |
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