Dithyramb

Definition: Dithyramb

Dithyramb

Noun

1. A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing.

2. (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus).

Date "dithyramb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Dithyramb \Dith"y*ramb\, noun. [Latin expression dithyrambus, Greek kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus; also, name of Bacchus; of unknown origin: compare to the French expression dithyrambe.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poetry	Poem; epic, epic poem; epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dithyramb

English words defined with "dithyramb": dithyrambic, Dithyrambus. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Bumblebee dithyramb (reference) Dithyramb Tragedy and Comedy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	But Grantaire was attaining the highest regions of dithyramb.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dithyramb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Dithyramb" is used about 13 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)	92.31%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "dithyramb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ditiramb, shkrim emocionues, poemë entuziaste, fjalim emocionues. (various references)

Arabic		‏قصيدة مليئة بالحماسة. (various references)

Bulgarian		дитирамб. (various references)

Czech		oslavná hymna. (various references)

French		dithyrambe. (various references)

Greek		διθύραμβοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		ditirambus. (various references)

Italian		ditirambo. (various references)

Pig Latin		ithyrambday

Portuguese		ditirambo. (various references)

Romanian		ditiramb. (various references)

Russian		дифирамб. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ditiramb, hvalospev (hymn, paean, panegyric). (various references)

Spanish		ditirambo. (various references)

Swedish		dityramb. (various references)

Turkish		ditiramp, dionysos şerefine yazılmış ilâhi, hararetli şiir, abartılı heyecanla okunan yazı. (various references)

Ukrainian		вихваляння (aggrandizement, encomium, gasconade, glorification, incense, magnification, swank), дифірамб. (various references)

Vietnamese		thơ tán tụng, thơ đitian b� i ca thần rượu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dithyramb": dithyrambic, dithyrambically, dithyrambs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dithyramb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dithiramb, dithramb, dithyromb, dithytramb. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-h-i-m-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: birthday.
	-3 letters: dirham, hybrid, hydria, mihrab, myriad, thairm, thiram.
	-4 letters: admit, airth, ambit, ambry, amity, baith, barmy, bimah, birth, braid, dairy, diary, dirty, habit, hairy, hardy, hydra, ihram, mbira, mirth, rabid, rhyta, tabid, tardy, tharm, third, thymi, triad, tryma, yaird, yirth.
	-5 letters: abri, adit, airt, airy, amid, amir, arid, army, arty, baht, bait, bard.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-h-i-m-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: dithyrambs.
	+2 letters: dithyrambic.
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