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Date "DAPHNIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
"DAPHNIS" is a common misspelling or typo for: daphnia. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Daphnis A Sicilian shepherd who invented pastoral poetry. Daphnis. The lover of Chloe in the exquisite Greek pastoral romance of Longos, in the fourth century. Daphnis was the model of Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, and the tale is the basis of St. Pierre's Paul and Virginia. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DAPHNIS |
| Specialty definitions using "DAPHNIS": Chlo'e. (references) |
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Screenplays | All splendid lovers have just dreadful times! Uh, Peleus and Melicent Daphnis and Chloë History's just jammed with stories of lovers parted by some silly thing! (The Parent Trap; writing credit: Erich Kästner; David Swift) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Daphnis und Chloe (1957) | |
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Virgil | Draw Daphnis from the town, my songs, draw Daphnis home. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Be Daphnis and Chloe, while you are waiting to be Philemon and Baucis. |
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| "DAPHNIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "DAPHNIS" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
daphnis love | 7 |
daphnis | 6 |
daphnis and chloe | 5 |
daphnis et chloe | 2 |
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"DAPHNIS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dalphinis. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dishpan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: aphids, danish, sandhi. | |
-2 letters: aphid, aphis, apish, dashi, hands, hinds, nipas, padis, pains, pians, pinas, sapid, spahi. | |
-3 letters: aids, ains, ands, anis, dahs, dais, daps, dash, dins, dips, dish, hand, haps, hasp, hind, hins, hips, hisn, naps, nipa, nips, padi, pads, paid, pain, pans, pash, phis, pian, pias, pina, pins, pish, sadi, said. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: daphnias, dauphins, deanship, dishpans, headpins, pinheads. | |
+2 letters: aphidians, dauphines, deanships, diaphones, dysphonia, handgrips, handicaps, handpicks, handspike, ophidians, planished. | |
+3 letters: diaphanous, diaphonies, duennaship, dysphonias, handprints, handspikes, handspring, headspring, hispanidad, midshipman, nymphalids, phantasied, philanders, printheads, sphenoidal, springhead, wardenship. | |
+4 letters: anthropoids, despatching, dispatching, duennaships, handsprings, headsprings, hispanidads, pathfinders, radiophones, springheads, staphylinid, transhipped, wardenships. | |
+5 letters: branchiopods, cardinalship, diaphanously, guardianship, handicappers, misapprehend, pathfindings, philanderers, rhapsodizing, spearheading, staphylinids, transshipped. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 50 48 4E 49 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000100 01000001 01010000 01001000 01001110 01001001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A P H N I S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0050 0048 004E 0049 0053 |
| 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)38355042484353 |
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