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Date "DANAE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
"DANAE" is a common misspelling or typo for: damage, dame, Dana, dance, Dane, dean, dense, dine, donate, done. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Danae An Argive princess whom Zeus (Jupiter) seduced under the form of a shower of gold, while she was confined in an inaccessible tower. She thus became the mother of Perseus (2 syl.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Disappointed by his lack of male heirs, Acrisius asked an oracle if this would change. The oracle told him that one day he would be killed by his daughter's child. She was childless and, meaning to keep her so, he shut her up in a bronze tower or cave. But Zeus came to her in the form of rain or a shower of gold, and impregnated her. Soon after, their child Perseus was born.
None too happy, but unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing his offspring, Acrisius cast the two into the sea in a wooden chest. The sea was calmed by Poseidon at the request of Zeus and the pair survived. They washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where they were taken in by Dictys, the brother of King Polydectes, who raised the boy to manhood.
Later, after Perseus killed Medusa and rescued Andromeda, the oracle's prophecy came true.
He started for Argos, but learning of the prophecy instead went to Larissa, where athletic games were being held. By chance Acrisius was there, and Perseus accidentally struck him with his javelin (or discus), fulfilling the prophecy. Too shamed to return to Argos he then gave the kingdom to Megapenthes, son of Proetus (Acrisius' brother) and took over his kingdom of Tyrins, also founding Mycenae and Midea there.
Apollodorus. Bibliotheke IV, 1-3.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Danae."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wealth | Rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DANAE |
| Specialty definitions using "DANAE": Golden Shower. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Paymaster C.K.T. Wheen, paymaster of the H.M.S. Danae, and British Embassy employee, J.M. Branch, playing cricket at Potomac Park Polo Grounds, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Danae. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DANAE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "DANAE" is used about 8 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 (proper) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (plural) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "DANAE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Danae | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,806 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Danae Investment Trust Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
danae | 61 |
danae princess | 10 |
danae dobson | 6 |
danae milonaki | 4 |
com danae | 3 |
danae dupuis | 3 |
danae demasi | 3 |
astrangia danae | 2 |
danae prince | 2 |
danae hms | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DANAE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | Î"ανάη. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | anaeday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-n" | |
-1 letter: dean, nada. | |
-2 letters: ana, and, ane, den, end, nae. | |
-3 letters: aa, ad, ae, an, de, ed, en, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-n" | |
+1 letter: adnate, adnexa, agenda, anadem, maenad. | |
+2 letters: addenda, adenoma, adnexal, adrenal, advance, agendas, anadems, andante, aneared, ansated, araneid, bandage, bandeau, beadman, cadenza, canaled, candela, deadpan, decanal, fazenda, headman, lanated, leadman, maenads, managed, mandate, manmade, naiades, veranda, weasand, weazand, zenaida. | |
+3 letters: abidance, adamance, adenomas, adjacent, adrenals, aduncate, advanced, advancer, advances, alderman, amandine, analysed, analyzed, andantes, anecdota, animated, annealed, antedate, araneids, arranged, asyndeta, attained, awakened, badinage, balanced, bandaged, bandager, bandages, bandeaus, bandeaux, banjaxed, beadsman, cadenzas, caducean, calendal, calendar, canalled, candelas, canvased, dalesman, damnable, deadpans, dentalia, diamante, dracaena, drainage, emanated, empanada, endamage, endameba, fanegada, fazendas, gadarene, gardenia, grandame, hacienda, handmade, hangared, headband, headland, headsman, indagate, japanned, leadsman, maenades, maenadic, magdalen, manacled, mandated, mandates, mandrake, marinade, nailhead, napalmed, narrated, pancaked, radiance, sandaled, seladang, stanzaed, tapenade, unabated, unawaked, valanced, vanadate, verandah, verandas, waveband, weasands, weazands, zenaidas. | |
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