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Definition: Dido |
DidoNoun1. (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of he suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Dido" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a virgin". |
Date "Dido" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dido It was Porson who said he could rhyme on any subject; and being asked to rhyme upon the three Latin gerunds, gave this couplet - "When Dido found Æneas would not come, She mourned in silence, and was Di-do dum(b)." In the old Eton Latin grammar the three gerunds are called -di, -do, -dum. In modern school primers they are -dum, -di, -do. When Dido saw Æneas needs must go, She wept in silence, and was dum(b) Di-do. E. C. B. Dido was queen of Carthage, who fell in love with Æneas, driven by a storm to her shores. After abiding awhile at Carthage, he was compelled by Mercury to leave the hospitable queen. Dido, in grief, burnt herself to death on a funeral pile. (Virgil from Æneid, i. 494 to iii. 650.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pygmalion seized the power, and had Acherbas assassinated, taking hold of his riches. Elissa, together with a number of aristocrats who had supported Acherbas, fled to Cyprus, and from there on to the later site of Carthage, where she planned to build a colony. They landed there in 814 (or 813) BC. The local Libyans received them friendly, and when they asked land to build a city offered them as much land as could be covered by an oxhide. Elissa spread out the oxhide in fine strips, and so had enough to use it to surround a hill, Byrsa, that would become the basis of their new city Qarthadasht ("new city").
The native king demanded to marry Elissa, but she preferred to stay faithful to her husband, and committed suicide by throwing herself in the fire. After this self-sacrifice she was deified.
Some of this story is in all probability mythological (for example, the oxhide story comes from the name of the hill - Byrsa means "oxhide" in Greek, but the name itself is probably derived from the Semitic brt, "fortified place". However, there are also elements in the story that are clearly of Phoenician, and not Greek or Roman, origin.
Dido is also the stage name of the singer Dido Armstrong.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dido."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DIDO | English | Distributed Intelligence Data Operation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Dido |
| English words defined with "Dido": Didos ♦ To cut a dido. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Dido": Cenotaphs ♦ Doncaster, Doors ♦ Ethbaal, Eth-baal ♦ Hair devoted to Proserpine ♦ Shaking Hands. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Dido": Didonia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dido" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (European, frenchman). |
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| "Dido" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dido" is used about 49 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) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Dido": To cut a dido. 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dido | 1,475 | dido song lyrics | 7 |
dido lyrics | 117 | dido flag white | 6 |
dido thank you lyrics | 78 | dido queen | 6 |
fido dido | 69 | dido discography | 6 |
thank you dido | 45 | lyrics to thank you by dido | 6 |
dido mp3 | 24 | dido hunter | 6 |
dido picture | 23 | dido video | 6 |
dido armstrong | 20 | dido hunter mp3 | 5 |
dido here with me lyrics | 19 | art dido fan | 5 |
no angel dido | 16 | cd cover dido | 5 |
dido aeneas | 15 | dido nude | 5 |
dido here with me | 15 | carthage dido queen | 5 |
dido and eminem | 13 | dido hand take | 5 |
dido pic | 9 | dido photo | 4 |
dido music | 9 | dido official | 4 |
dido wallpaper | 7 | stan dido | 4 |
dido suicide | 7 | dido guitar tab | 4 |
dido tab | 7 | babe dido famous | 4 |
thank you by dido | 7 | dido song | 4 |
dido hunter lyrics | 7 | dido official site | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Dido"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Çapkënëri. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Празна абота, Подскачане (Bob, Frisk), Нещо Само За Показ, Фокус, Лудория, Скок. (various references) | |
Czech | Skok (bound, dash, dive, hop, jump, leap, look in, prance, spring, vault). (various references) | |
German | Freudensprung (joyful leap, skip). (various references) | |
Greek | ίάτι αράδοξο, αιγνίδι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Móka (crap, drollery, fun, game, joke, jollity, pantaloonery, skylark, waggishness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idoday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | travessura (archness, caper, frisk, gambade, hob, mischief, prank, waggery), cambalhota (caper, capriole, flip-flap, flywheel, frisk, gambade, gambol, somersault, tumble, wheel). (various references) | |
Romanian | Didona. (various references) | |
Russian | Шалость. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nestašluk (fetch, mischief), šala (dalliance, farce, fun, have on, jest, joke, lark, pleasantry, rag, rib, sally, trick). (various references) | |
Spanish | Travesura (devilry, mischief, prank, trick). (various references) | |
Swedish | Upptåg (antic, antics, caper, cod, escapade, Frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, high jinks, jinks, joke, lark, practical joke, prank, rag, spree), Spratt (hoax, lark, prank, spoof, trick). (various references) | |
Turkish | Tuhaflık (antics, fad, grotesqueness, novelty, queerness, singularity, strangeness), Muziplik (caper, fooling, frolic, hoax, joke, lark, prank, rag, teasing, trick). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Пустощі, 'итівка. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Dido": didoes, didos. (additional references) | |
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"Dido" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aidoo, dadod, dadok, dadol, dador, dadot, dadox, dardo, ddo, dedo, deod, diado, diao, dibo, dic, dico, diddi, diddo, dide, didg, didi, didio, Didion, didn, didot, didso, didy, digo, dijo, diko, Dimdi, dimo, Dimov, dio, diob, diod, Diodon, dipo, diso, ditio, dito, ditu, Divo, Djidi, duddu, Dudot, dudu, duod, dydon, Dzikow, fido, Iddo, Iddon, sido, tido, vido. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Dido" (pronounced dī"dō) |
| 3 | -ī" d ō | Fido. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-i-o" | |
-1 letter: did, odd. | |
-2 letters: do, id, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-i-o" | |
+1 letter: didos, dildo, diode, droid, iodid, kiddo. | |
+2 letters: bodied, devoid, didoes, dildoe, dildos, diodes, dioxid, dipody, doiled, doited, droids, fordid, gadoid, hoddin, iodide, iodids, ixodid, kiddos, oddish, oddity, outdid, sordid, voided. | |
+3 letters: adenoid, android, avoided, codding, dadoing, deltoid, demigod, dentoid, dermoid, desmoid, diamond, dildoes, dioxide, dioxids, diploid, dipodic, discoed, discoid, discord, dittoed, dodgier, dodging, dodoism, dollied, dowdier, dowdies, dowdily, foredid, gadoids, godding, hoddins, howdied, hydroid, indowed, iodated, iodides, iodised, iodized, ixodids, kiddoes, noddies, nodding, overdid, piddock, podding, poinded, radioed, rodding, skiddoo, soddies, sodding, toadied, toddies, widowed. | |
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