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Definition: EIDOLON |
EIDOLONNoun1. An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition. |
Date "EIDOLON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Etymology: Eidolon \Ei*do"lon\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression image. See Idol.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: EIDOLON |
| Etymologies containing "EIDOLON": IDOL. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
eidolon | 60 |
acoustic eidolon | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EIDOLON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | imazh (account, frame, image, imago, reflection, reflex, reflexion), fantazmë (apparition, ghost, haunt, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spirit, wraith). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | привидение (boggard, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shape, spectre, vision, visitant), призрак (appearance, bogy, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, spirit, spook, vision, wraith). (various references) | |
Czech | představa (conception, fancy, idea, image, imago, notion, picture, view). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kísértet (apparition, appearance, bogey, boggle, bogy, ghost, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shadow, specter, spectre, spook, vampire, wraith). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eidolonay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espectro (Bogle, ghost, phantasm, phantom, spectre, spectrum, spectrum mask, spirit, spook, wraith), edredom (puff). (various references) | |
Russian | образ (character, fashion, figure, form, image, imagination, imago, picture, reflex, shape, similitude, type). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fantom (phantom). (various references) | |
Spanish | eidolón. (various references) | |
Thai | ผี (fetch, ghost). (various references) | |
Ukranian | кумир (idol, pippin), образ (character, depiction, exemplar, image, imago, portrait, similitude, vision), привид (apparition, appearance, boggard, bogy, caddy, ghost, haunter, poltergeist, presence, spectre, spook, waff, wraith), примара (apparition, appearance, boggard, bogie, caddy, ghost, illusion, phantom, poltergeist). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "EIDOLON": eidolons. (additional references) | |
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"EIDOLON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eidelon, eidilon, eidolan, eidolin, Eiduson, ericolin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "EIDOLON" (pronounced 'Ei*do"lon'): Bellon, Bullon, Chalon, Coilon, Decathlon, Fellon, Merlon, mesocolon, Mouflon, Muflon, Orillon, Phylon, shallon, Sillon, solon, Stallon, stolon, Tenaillon, Tetracolon. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: doolie, indole, noodle. | |
-2 letters: eloin, indol, lined, loden, looed, looie, odeon, oiled, olden, oldie, olein. | |
-3 letters: deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, diol, dole, done, enol, idle, idol, lend, leno, lido, lied, lien, line, lino, lion, lode, loin, lone, loon, nide, node, nodi, noel, noil, nolo, oleo, olio. | |
-4 letters: del, den, die, din, doe, dol, don, eld, end, eon, ion, led, lei, lid, lie, lin, loo, nil, nod, noo, ode, oil, old, ole, one. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, el, en, id, in, li, lo, ne, no, od, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: eidolons, solenoid. | |
+2 letters: bloodline, colonised, colonized, dewooling, gondolier, solenoids. | |
+3 letters: beblooding, bloodiness, bloodlines, decolonize, decoloring, demolition, desolation, devolution, devotional, gondoliers, indophenol, reflooding, solenoidal, unbloodied. | |
+4 letters: consolidate, decollation, decolonized, decolonizes, decolouring, defloration, defoliation, demolitions, dendrologic, desolations, devolutions, devotionals, dicotyledon, dobsonflies, indophenols, monopolised, monopolized, moonlighted, nickelodeon, noninvolved, overholding, overloading, overlording, periodontal, pigeonholed, recolonized, unmelodious. | |
+5 letters: anthologized, bloodinesses, bloodletting, bloodstained, codeveloping, colonialized, complexioned, consolidated, consolidates, coordinately, decollations, decolonizing, decolorizing, deflorations, defoliations, demodulation, demonologies, demonologist, dendrologies, dendrologist, deontologies, deontologist, depopulation, depositional, despoliation, devotionally, dicotyledons, disconsolate, dishonorable, duodecillion, endothelioma, forebodingly, furazolidone, hemodilution, ideologizing, indecorously, nickelodeons, noneditorial, nonsteroidal, oleandomycin, overclouding, philodendron, prednisolone, undercooling, unlikelihood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 49 44 4F 4C 4F 4E |
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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)01000101 01001001 01000100 01001111 01001100 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E I D O L O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0049 0044 004F 004C 004F 004E |
| 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)39433849464948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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