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CORYPHEUS

Definition: CORYPHEUS

CORYPHEUS

Noun

1. The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: CORYPHEUS

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

Director

Intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy.

Teacher

Noun: teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess, duenna; disciplinarian.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CORYPHEUS

English words defined with "CORYPHEUS": Coryphei, Corypheuses. (references)

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Rhyming with "CORYPHEUS"

Words rhyming with "CORYPHEUS" (pronounced 'Cor`y*phe"us'): Amphioxus, Antibacchius, Archeus, Bacchius, Chaus, Complexus, Glutaeus, Gluteus, Nexus, Uraeus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CORYPHEUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-o-p-r-s-u-y"

-2 letters: chouser, croupes, cyphers, porches, pouches, recoups, rouches, uphroes.

-3 letters: cerous, chores, chorus, chouse, copers, corpse, corpus, cosher, coupes, course, coypus, croupe, croups, croupy, crouse, cypher, cypres, cyprus, ephors, epochs, hopers, horsey, houser, ochers, ochery, ochres, osprey, ouches, ouphes, poseur, posher, pouchy, psyche, psycho, pusher, recopy, recoup, rouche, ruches, source, sphery, spruce, sprucy.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-o-p-r-s-u-y"
 

+1 letter: coryphaeus.

 

+4 letters: brachypterous, hydrocephalus, hypercautious, psychosurgeon, psychosurgery.

 

+5 letters: hyperconscious, hyperfunctions, hyperproducers, myrmecophilous, pachydermatous, parenchymatous, peritrichously, psychoneuroses, psychoneurosis, psychoneurotic, psychosurgeons.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CORYPHEUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 52 59 50 48 45 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .-.    -.--.    .--.    ....    .    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010010 01011001 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#82 &#89 &#80 &#72 &#69 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0052 0059 0050 0048 0045 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374952595042395553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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