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Definitions: Calliope |
CalliopeNoun1. (Greek mythology) the Muse of epic poetry. 2. A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Calliope" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a beautiful voice". |
Date "Calliope" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Literature | Calliope [Kal'-li-o-pe, 4 syl., Greek, ????????? beautiful voice ]. The muse of epic or heroic poetry. Her emblems are a stylus and wax tablets. The painting of this Muse by Ercolana Ercolanetti (1615-1687) and her statue by Clementi (who died in 1580) are very celebrated. The Greek word is ????????, in which the i is short. Erroneously called "Calilope." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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"Calliope" is a song by Tom Waits.
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Synonym: CalliopeSynonym: steam organ (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Noun: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring. |
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Crosswords: Calliope |
| English words defined with "Calliope": Humming bird. (references) |
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Lyrics | With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ("Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen)"; performing artist: MANFRED MANN) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Calliope (1971) The Reformation of Calliope (1913) Calliope (1993) Canada Vignettes: Calliope (1980) The Mighty Steam Calliope (1978) | |
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 | Film score style excerpt featuring horns, calliope, and snare drum. |
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| "Calliope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Calliope" 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
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| "Calliope" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a beautiful voice". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Calliope." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Kalliope | Female | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Calliope | Female | Greek Mythology (Latinized) | Kalliope |
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Expression using "Calliope": Stellula Calliope. Additional references. | |
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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 |
calliope | 107 |
calliope music | 26 |
red calliope | 23 |
calliope sister | 18 |
calliope jo no red | 8 |
calliope humming bird | 5 |
calliope circus | 5 |
calliope muse | 4 |
calliope song | 3 |
calliope magazine | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Calliope"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | colibri de Calliope (Calliope hummingbird). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alliopecay.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Calliope": calliopes. (additional references) | |
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"Calliope" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caglione, caliope, calipi, Calippo, calliopy, callip, callop, calopie, catlimore, Coliupe, Collavoce, Valliappa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Calliope" (pronounced 'Cal*li"o*pe'): Aeroscope, AEthrioscope, Agrope, Albertype, Alethoscope, Altiscope, Ambrotype, Anamorphoscope, Anemoscope, Angioscope, Anorthoscope, Antelope, Antipope, Antitype, Apocope, Archetype, Aristotype, Artotype, Aslope, Asterope, Astroscope, Auriscope, Authotype, Autotype, Awhape, Baroscope, Bejape, Boltrope, Breastrope, By-wipe, Calotype, Cantaloupe, Capape, Catpipe, Ceraunoscope, Cerotype, Cesspipe, Chape, Chemitype, Chromascope, Chromatoscope, Chromatrope, Chromatype, Chromotype, Chronoscope, Chrysotype, Clape, Collodiotype, Collotype, Culpe, Cyanotype, Cyclonoscope, Cycloscope, Cymoscope, Debuscope, Diacope, Diaphanoscope, Diaphanotype, Dichroiscope, Dichroscope, Dipleidoscope, Dispope, Doupe, Drainpipe, Drivepipe, Dronepipe, Drupe, Duotype, Ebullioscope, Echoscope, Ectype, Electro-stereotype, Elope, Endoscope, Engiscope, Enorthotrope, Epitrope, Estrepe, 'Etape, Euterpe, Ferrotype, Flipe, Footrope, Forshape, Frape, Galpe, Galvanoscope, Gantlope, Gasoscope, gastroscope, Genappe, GRAPE, Graphiscope, Graphotype, grippe, guimpe, guttersnipe, gyroscope, Haematoscope, Haemoscope, Hagioscope, Haloscope, Handygripe, Headrope, Helioscope, heliotype, Hemiorthotype, Hoggerpipe, Homotype, hornpipe, horoscope, Hyalotype, Hydroscope, Hydrotrope, hygroscope, Hypnoscope, interlope, Iridioscope, Iriscope, Ivorytype, Kaleidoscope, Kempe, Kipe, Lactoscope, landscape, Larungoscope, Lenni-Lenape, Leucoscope, Linotype, Liripipe, logotype, lycanthrope, Lychnoscope, Manoscope, Manrope, Meatoscope, Megalethoscope, Megascope, Melanoscope, Melanotype, Melotype, Mesotype, Meteoroscope, Metope, Metroscope, Microspectroscope, misanthrope, Misshape, Mutoscope, Myope, Myrioscope, Nape, Nappe, Nephoscope, Niloscope, nope, Olpe, Onomatope, Ootype, Opalotype, Opeidoscope, Ophthalmoscope, Orthoscope, Orycterope, oscilloscope, Osteocope, Otheoscope, Otoscope, Outlope, Overripe, Ozonoscope, Palaeotype, Paleotype, Pantascope, Pape, Partenope, Penelope, Pericope, Periodoscope, Periscope, Phakoscope, Phalarope, Phantascope, Phenakistoscope, Philanthrope, Phoneidoscope, Phonoscope, Phosphoroscope, Photo-electrotype, Photomezzotype, Photoscope, Phototelescope, Phototype, Piewipe, Platetrope, Platinotype, Pluvioscope, Polariscope, Polemoscope, Polyscope, Porotype, Praecipe, Praxinoscope, Precipe, Presbyope, Protopope, Prototype, Pseudoscope, Pupe, Pyrope, Pyroscope, Rampe, Rathripe, recipe, Red-tape, reshape, Rheoscope, Rheotrope, rhinoscope, Schappe, Scotoscope, seascape, Seismoscope, Sematrope, Semicope, serape, Sideroscope, Slape, Slype, Snape, Sope, spectroscope, Sphygmoscope, Spinthariscope, Spiroscope, standpipe, Stanhope, Stannotype, Stauroscope, steppe, Stereomonoscope, stereoscope, stipe, Stomatoscope, stovepipe, stroboscope, Supe, Swinepipe, syncope, Tachistoscope, Tachyscope, Teinoscope, Telegraphoscope, Telelectroscope, Telengiscope, Telepolariscope, Telespectroscope, Telestereoscope, Telotype, Thaumatrope, Thermoscope, Thermotype, Tintype, Top-rope, towrope, Transshape, Trape, Trichinoscope, tripe, trope, troupe, Twire-pipe, Uncape, undrape, Unpope, unripe, Unshape, Urethroscope, Vibroscope, Voltatype, Wanhope, Waterscape, Weeping-ripe, Wincopipe, Windpipe, Woodbury-type, Zoetrope, Zope, Zymoscope. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-o-p" | |
-2 letters: collie, epical, locale, ocelli, plaice, plicae, plical, police. | |
-3 letters: cella, celli, cello, copal, ileac, ileal, lapel, lilac, local, oleic, pical, pilea, place, plica. | |
-4 letters: alec, aloe, call, calo, cape, capo, ceil, cell, ciao, clap, clip, clop, coal, coil, cola, cole, cope, epic, ilea, lace, laic, leal, leap, lice, lipa, lipe, loca, loci, lope, olea, olla, opal, pace, pail, pale, pall, peal, pial, pica, pice, pile, pill, plea, plie, pole, poll. | |
-5 letters: ace, ail, ale, all, alp, ape, cap, cel, cep, col, cop, ell, ice, ill, lac, lap, lea, lei, lie, lip, lop, oca, oil, ole, ope, pac, pal, pea, pec, pia, pic, pie, poi, pol. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-o-p" | |
+1 letter: calliopes, polemical. | |
+2 letters: peccadillo, pillowcase, poetically, prelogical. | |
+3 letters: collapsible, cupellation, ectopically, episcopally, escalloping, leukoplakic, peccadillos, pedological, penological, pillowcases, plagioclase, polemically, precolonial. | |
+4 letters: allelopathic, compellation, complexional, cupellations, despotically, entropically, epicycloidal, episodically, euphonically, euphorically, geopolitical, hyperbolical, leptocephali, operatically, peccadilloes, periodically, petrological, phenological, phonemically, phonetically, plagioclases, plainclothes, politicalize, reciprocally, valpolicella. | |
+5 letters: allelomorphic, aperiodically, ceruloplasmin, colleagueship, compellations, complicatedly, exceptionally, genotypically, geophysically, geotropically, incorporeally, morphemically, nucleoplasmic, orthoepically, paleobiologic, paleoecologic, paleontologic, pedagogically, phallocentric, phrenological, politicalized, politicalizes, polydactylies, porcelainlike, praxeological, prebiological, precollegiate, problematical, proleptically, prophetically, psephological, semipolitical, speleological, valpolicellas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6C 6C 69 6F 70 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)-.-. .- .-.. .-.. .. --- .--. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101111 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l l i o p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 006C 0069 006F 0070 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)3767787875818271 |
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