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Definition: Epicurus |
EpicurusNoun1. Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Epicurus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | EPICURUS, an ancient who believed that pain was unpleasant and that pleasure was good. His descendants live in expensive hotels and eat only in high-class restaurants. Many suffer with the gout. A popular cat foot was named in his honor. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sensualist | Noun: Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine; hedonist; tragalist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Epicurus |
| English words defined with "Epicurus": Atomic philosophy ♦ Doctrine of atoms ♦ Epicurean, Epicurize ♦ Philosophy of the Garden. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Epicurus": Epicure, Epicureans, EPICURUS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Epicurus": Epicure. (references) |
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Clever | Live like a god among men. (references; author: Epicurus) 77. The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. (references; author: Epicurus) Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. (references; author: Epicurus) Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little. (references; author: Epicurus) Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. (references; author: Epicurus) | |
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Epicurus | Live like a god among men. |
| 77. The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. | |
| Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. | |
| Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little. | |
| Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. | |
| 58. We must release ourselves from the prison of affairs and politics. | |
| If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. | |
| 9. Necessity is an evil, but there is no necessity to live under the control of necessity. | |
| 494. The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live. | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses. |
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| "Epicurus" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Epicurus" is used about 10 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 (plural) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "Epicurus". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Epicurean | N/A | Biblical | Follower of Epicurus |
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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 |
epicurus | 576 |
epictetus epicurus versus | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Epicurus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | επίκουροσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | epicurusay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-p-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: euripus. | |
-2 letters: cripes, cruise, curies, precis, prices, pursue, spicer, spruce, uprise. | |
-3 letters: cires, cries, cripe, crisp, cruse, cures, curie, curse, ecrus, epics, peris, piers, price, pries, prise, puces, puris, purse, rices, ripes, scrip, sepic, sieur, sirup, speir, spice, spier, spire, sprue, sucre, super, ureic, usurp. | |
-4 letters: ceps, cire, cris, crus, cues, cups, cure, curs. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-p-r-s-u-u" | |
+3 letters: apicultures, cupriferous, perspicuous, picturesque, superinduce. | |
+4 letters: pisciculture, pulchritudes, supercilious, superinduced, superinduces. | |
+5 letters: hypercautious, jurisprudence, perspicuously, picturesquely, piscicultures, supercautious, superinducing, unpicturesque, venipunctures. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 70 69 63 75 72 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. .. -.-. ..- .-. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110000 01101001 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E p i c u r u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0070 0069 0063 0075 0072 0075 0073 |
| 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)3982756987848785 |
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