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Definition: Camelot |
CamelotNoun1. (Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom; according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty reigned there. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Camelot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Camelot (Somersetshire), where King Arthur held his court. (See Winchester .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Possible Locations of Camelot:
The 1960 musical, Camelot, was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and is loosely based on the Arthur legend as adapted from the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King. The main thrust of the novel and the play is the illicit romance between Arthur's wife, Guinevere, and his great friend, Sir Lancelot. Notable songs include:
The movie adaptation won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design and Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment. It was also nominated for the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. It also won three Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for an additional three.
"Camelot" is a term used to describe the administration of United States President John F. Kennedy. The Burton/Andrews production of the musical opened December 1960,a few weeks after Kennedy's election, and was a favorite of both the President and his wife Jackie. Jackie gave an interview to Life magazine shortly after the President's death in which she used some favorite lines from the musical, and that theme was often repeated in the press.
Camelot is the name the operator of the UK National Lottery.External Link
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Camelot."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Merchant | Retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus; sutler, vivandiere; costerman, costermonger; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Camelot |
| English words defined with "Camelot": Arthur, Arthurian legend ♦ historical ♦ King Arthur. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Camelot": Camelot Library ♦ Shalott. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Camelot": Camlet ♦ mohair. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Camelot" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Camelot), French (Hawker, pedlar). |
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Screenplays | Here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and spam a lot. (Monty Python and the Holy Grail ; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) Camelot rots, and I play at being king. (A Kid in King Arthur's Court; writing credit: Michael Part; Robert L. Levy) Anyway, cheer up. When we get to Camelot, we'll be kissed by the world's most beautiful women. (Quest for Camelot; writing credit: Vera Chapman; Kirk De Micco) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Camelot (1967) Quest for Camelot (1998) Return to Camelot (1994) Camelot (1982) | |
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| "Camelot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.11% of the time. "Camelot" is used about 18 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) | 61.11% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Camelot": camelot Library. 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 |
dark age camelot | 2,056 |
camelot | 980 |
camelot herald | 587 |
camelot vault | 229 |
camelot by the sea | 104 |
camelot music | 98 |
quest for camelot | 78 |
camelot myrtle beach | 57 |
camelot warcry | 54 |
camelot cruise | 52 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Camelot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | Camelot. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Kameloto. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amelotcay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Camelot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amelko, Cabello, Cabelo, Camalata, camelet, Camelon, Camiletti, Camilio, Camilion, Camilleti, Capelat, Capello, Cazelet, Ramelho. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-o-t" | |
-1 letter: camlet, comate, locate. | |
-2 letters: amole, camel, cameo, celom, cleat, comae, comal, comet, comte, eclat, macle, metal, motel, octal. | |
-3 letters: acme, alec, alme, aloe, alto, atom, calm, calo, came, cate, celt, clam, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, colt, coma, come, cote, lace, lame, late, loam, loca, lota, mace, male, malt, mate, meal, meat, melt, meta, moat, mola, mole, molt, mote, olea, tace, taco, tael, talc, tale, tame, teal, team, tela, toea, tola, tole, tome. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ale, alt, ate, cam, cat, cel, col, cot, eat, elm, eta, lac, lam, lat, lea, let, lot, mac, mae, mat, mel, met, moa, moc, mol, mot, oat, oca, ole, tae, tam, tao, tea, tel, toe, tom. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, am, at, el, em, et, la, lo, ma, me, mo, oe, om, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: celomata, compleat. | |
+2 letters: coelomata, coelomate, collimate, comatulae, ectoplasm, latecomer, melanotic, metabolic, mislocate. | |
+3 letters: acoelomate, allometric, cacomistle, cajolement, coelomates, colemanite, collimated, collimates, commutable, compatible, complacent, complicate, computable, documental, ectodermal, ectoplasms, epitomical, latecomers, malcontent, malefactor, melanocyte, methodical, mislocated, mislocates, schoolmate, scleromata, solacement. | |
+4 letters: acoelomates, amylopectin, biometrical, cacomistles, cajolements, calorimeter, calorimetry, cleistogamy, colemanites, combatively, comfortable, committable, compactible, compatibles, complicated, complicates, concealment, condimental, congealment, contemplate, cytomegalic, declamation, declamatory, domiciliate, ectoplasmic, elastomeric, electrogram, emasculator, exclamation, exclamatory, geometrical, hematologic, homiletical, malcontents, malediction, maledictory, malefaction, malefactors, meiotically, melanocytes, meroblastic, metonymical, misallocate, multicoated, myelopathic, nematocidal, nomenclator, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, problematic, reclamation, recommittal, schoolmates, solacements. | |
+5 letters: amylopectins, anecdotalism, calorimeters, calorimetric, cephalometry, cleistogamic, comicalities, commonalties, commonwealth, compellation, complacently, complemental, complexation, componential, concealments, congealments, conglomerate, consummately, contemplated, contemplates, contemplator, cosmetically, counterclaim, cytochemical, declamations, dermatologic, dilatometric, documentable, domestically, domiciliated, domiciliates, electrograms, emasculation, emasculators, etymological, exclamations, exophthalmic, galactosemia, galactosemic, immethodical, incommutable, incompatible, incomputable, kleptomaniac, laryngectomy, machicolated, malcontented, maledictions, malefactions, melodramatic, metaphorical, meteorically, meteoritical, methodically, metrological, metronomical, microclimate, misallocated, misallocates, miscataloged, monometallic, mononucleate, myeloblastic, nomenclators, nomenclature, olfactometer, osteomalacia, outplacement, pinealectomy, polarimetric, polycythemia, problematics, reclamations, recommittals, schoolmaster, sectionalism, semitropical, smallclothes, uncomplacent. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6D 65 6C 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -- . .-.. --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101101 01100101 01101100 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a m e l o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006D 0065 006C 006F 0074 |
| 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)37677971788186 |
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