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Definition: Elephant |
ElephantNoun1. Five-toed pachyderm. 2. The symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elephant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | Elephant Large, grey, four-legged mammal. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Bible | Elephant not found in Scripture except indirectly in the original Greek word (elephantinos) translated "of ivory" in Rev. 18:12, and in the Hebrew word (shenhabim, meaning "elephant's tooth") rendered "ivory" in 1 Kings 10:22 and 2 Chr. 9:21. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of riding an elephant, denotes that you will possess wealth of the most solid character, and honors which you will wear with dignity. You will rule absolutely in all lines of your business affairs and your word will be law in the home. To see many elephants, denotes tremendous prosperity. One lone elephant, signifies you will live in a small but solid way. To dream of feeding one, denotes that you will elevate yourself in your community by your kindness to those occupying places below you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Elephant 
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Proboscidea Family: Elephantidae Genera and Species
Loxodonta Loxodonta africana African elephant Loxodonta cyclotis Forest elephant Elephas Elephas maximus Asian elephant An elephant is one of three species of large grey land mammals found in Africa and India.
Its most typical characteristic is the trunk, a very much elongated combination of nose and upper lip, which can be used to grab objects such as food. Elephants also have tusks, large teeth coming out of their upper jaws. Elephant tusks are the major source of ivory, but because of the increased rarity of elephants, almost all hunting and trade is now illegal.
Elephants are the largest living land mammals. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 100 kg (225 pounds). It takes 20 to 22 months for a baby elephant to develop, the longest gestation period of any land animal. The largest elephant ever recorded was a male shot in Angola in 1974, that weighed 12 tonnes (27,000 pounds, or 13.5 tons).
It has long been known that African and Indian elephants were separate species, termed Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximus, respectively. The African elephant is larger than the Indian one (up to 4m high and 7500kg) and has bigger ears (which are rich in veins and thought to help in cooling off the blood in the hotter African climate). African females have tusks, while Indian females don't. African elephants have a dipped back compared with Indians, and they have two "fingers" at the tip of their trunks, while Indian elephants have only one.
Elephants have three premolars and three molarss in each quadrant. They erupt in order from front to back, then wear down as the elephant chews its highly fibrous diet. When the last molar has worn out, the elephant typically dies of malnutrition; elephants in captivity can be kept alive longer than that by feeding them preground food. The molars of the African elephant are loxodont, hence the genus name.
The African elephant has two populations, savanna and forest, and recent genetic studies have led to a reclassification of these as separate species, the forest population now being called Loxodonta cyclotis, and the savanna or bush population termed Loxodonta africanus. This reclassification has important implications for conservation, because it means where there were thought to be two small populations of a single endangered species, there may in fact be two separate species, each of which is even more severely endangered. There's also a potential danger in that if the forest elephant isn't explicitly listed as an endangered species, poachers and smugglers might thus be able to evade the law forbidding trade in endangered animals and their body parts.
African elephant (left) and Indian elephant at an English zoo.
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Elephants have been used in various capacities by humans. The Carthaginian general Hannibal took elephants across the Alps when he was fighting the Romans. Hannibal brought too few elephants to be of much military use, although his horse cavalry was quite successful. Hannibal probably used a smaller, now extinct third African species, the North African elephant, smaller than its two southern cousins.
Elephants have been used for transportation and entertainment, and are common to circuses around the world. Throughout Siam, India, and most of South Asia they were used in the military, used for heavy labor, especially for uprooting trees and moving logs, and were also commonly used as executioners to crush the condemned underfoot.
However, elephants have never been truly domesticated: the male elephant in heat is dangerous and difficult to control; elephants used by humans have typically been female. War elephants were an exception, however, as female elephants in battle will run from a male, only males could be used in war.
In the wild, elephants exhibit complex social behavior and strong family bonds. They communicate with very low and long-ranging sub-sonic tones.
A recent theory holds that elephants, which share an ancestor with sea cows, evolved from animals which spent most of their time in the water or even under water, using their trunks like snorkels for breathing. It has been recently discovered that the species can still swim using their trunks in that manner.
Miscellaneous
A White elephant is considered holy in Thailand.The most famous fictional elephant might be Dumbo, the flying elephant in Disney movie.
Ganesh is the god of wisdom in Hindu. He has an elephant's head.
See also
- War elephant
- White elephant
- History of elephants in Europe
- Dumbo
- List of historical elephants
- List of fictional elephants
- Elephant (movie - winner of Cannes Film Festival 2003)
External Links
- Absolut elephant - general information
- European Elephant Keepers and Managers association Wiki
- Tim Radford: "The elephant time forgot", The Guardian 2001-08-24, 1. Describes the discovery of the third species of elephant.
- C.Johnson: "Elephant trunks were once snorkels", News in Science 1999-05-11,
For the April 1, 2003 indie rock album by The White Stripes, see Elephant
For the movie by Gus Van Sant, see Elephant
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Elephant is the fourth LP released by Detroit rock group, The White Stripes.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Elephant (album)."
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Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilersElephant (2003) is a film by director Gus Van Sant, a fictional account of a shooting in an American high school, filmed in Portland, Oregon. Van Sant was awarded Best Director and also the Palme d'Or prize at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for this film.
The title is a tribute to the Alan Clarke, 1989 film for BBC, also called Elephant, which reflected on sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Van Sant similarly portrays school violence as something unfathomable, not unlike many other disturbing things in the lives of teenagers, which invite convenient explanations but ultimately frustrate analysis.
Van Sant has explained the "elephant" idea in several ways, besides the direct reference to Clarke's earlier work. It is an allusion to the proverbial "elephant in the living room", a large problem that no one talks about but everyone must find their way around as they go about their daily lives. It also invokes the Indian proverb about the blind wise men who, unable to grasp the whole, interpret the elephant only in terms of the part they can comprehend: "An elephant is a tree", said the blind man who grasped the leg; "An elephant is a snake", said the one who touched the trunk; etc. Finally, during the press conference at Cannes, Van Sant mentioned that the creative staff had also experimented with allusions to certain policies and attitudes represented by the Republican Party, whose party symbol is an elephant.
Elephant premiered in North America at a benefit for a youth shelter held at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, October 4, 2003. The film was released for incremental distribution by HBO, in 100 theaters in the United States, beginning October 24.
Prior to its distribution, the film generated considerable controversy and divided reviews following the Cannes debut, particularly in the gay community. The two male killers kiss one another in the shower, before they dispassionately commence their Columbine-like frenzy of murder.
Van Sant originally intended to make a film for television, about the Columbine massacre, shortly after the event; but, the idea of a factual account was eventually dropped. The approach chosen is described by reviewers as "poetic" and "dreamlike", and by Van Sant himself as a rejection of conventional narrative, building on what he learned from work on Gerry.
Characters
The teen actors were chosen for the parts based on interviews and their ability to improvise before the camera. Some of the characters were developed from details selected from the interviews.
- John McFarland - Managing his alcoholic father, he has trouble at school
- Mr. Luce - Principal of the school
- Gay Straight Alliance - Various students grasp for the giveaway clues that someone is gay
- Nathan and Carrie - Popular football player and his girlfriend, toying with sex
- Elias - Photography student building his portfolio with portraits of other students.
- Michelle - Painfully ashamed of her body, the film follows her through the locker room and into the library where she assists
- Brittany, Jordan, and Nicole - Three bulemic "teenyboppers" who talk incessantly, gripe about parents, and squabble with one another
- Benny - Completely fearless
- Alex - Loner harrassed by jocks, accomplished but frustrated pianist and sketch artist. His advice to Erik: "Have fun".
- Erik - Ignorant loser, Alex's best friend, the other killer.
See Also
- Alex and Erik are fictionalized references to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
External links
- Gus Van Sant's Elephant alludes to Columbine violence
- IMDb entry on Elephant
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Elephant and Castle station in Elephant and Castle in the London Borough of Southwark, England consists of a main line railway station, serving various suburban stations within south London, and a tube station. The tube station is on the Bank branch of the Northern Line, between Kennington and Borough. It is the southern terminus for the Bakerloo Line, the next station being Lambeth North.
Elephant & Castle tube Bakerloo Line entrance
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The tube station has two ticket halls, one for each line on differing sides of the roundabout. The Northern line building has been demolished and rebuilt. It is not yet open - passengers are forced to walk through internal tunnels to get to the Bakerloo platform and then use the lifts to get up to street level. It is scheduled to reopen in December 2003. Until then, the mainline station is not physically connected to the tube station. Services from the mainline station are run by Thameslink and Connex.
Elephant & Castle tube new Northern Line entranceThe Bakerloo Line hall was opened on August 5, 1906, and a tunnel interchange to the Northern Line platforms provided a few days later on August 10, 1906. It was closed between November 9, 1996 and July 14, 1997.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Noun: bane, curse; evil; hurtfulness; (badness); painfulness; (cause of pain); scourge; (punishment); damnosa hereditas; white elephant. |
Carrier | Ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy, ladino; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon. |
Size | Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows". |
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Screenplays | You expect me to believe that scantily clad, in the arms of another man, in the middle of the night, inside an elephant you were rehearsing for a play (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) What do you do with an elephant with 3 balls (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Heh, yeah, right, lady: An elephant ran through your front yard (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) First they tell me I can't hunt an elephant for its ivory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid (Eddie Izzard: Definite Article; writing credit: Eddie Izzard) | |
Lyrics | I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs (The Great Beyond; performing artist: R.E.M.) On our own pink elephant (How Are You; performing artist: Usher) | |
Clever | An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. (references; author: unknown) The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Elephant (2003) Anoop and the Elephant (1972) The African Elephant (1971) An Elephant Called Slowly (1969) The Elephant Hanako (1969) | |
Song Titles | In An Elephant World (performing artist: Tom Chapin) Elephant Song (performing artist: Giles & Fripp Giles) | |
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 | Wiredrag operations at Elephant Butte Reservoir for seaplane landing site Wiredrag party of Max Ricketts. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Elephant Island in the distance - island Shackleton left from on 800 mile open boat trip to South Georgia Island. 61 10 S Latitude 55 14 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Approaching Elephant Island. 61 10 S Latitude 55 14 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Entangled elephant seal. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 27. Ile Elephant. Iles New South Shetland. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Plate 23. The Sea Elephant. Macrorhinus angustirostris, Gill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | The main chamber of HELGOLAND was known as the "pregnant elephant.". Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | An Elephant Seal. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
 | Elephant seals on the Farallon Islands. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | [The Elephant Man]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Elephant Graveyard 2" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "In an unfinished and abandoned themepark in rural china the local farmers reclaimed the land. Vegetables were grown in the cement and fibreglass replicas of Europes famous holiday destinations. life sized fibre glass elephants were pushed over and made i" |
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 | Lion roar, growl, and elephant trumpet. | | Male elephant trumpeting. |
| Elephant trumpeting. | ||
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Author Unknown | I've seen the elephant, and I've heard the owl, and I've been to the other side of the mountain. |
Gregory The Great | Holy Scripture is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet. |
Suttapitaka | Extract yourself from bad ways like an elephant stuck in the mud. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When under the elephant he raised a grotesque call, which belongs to no human language and which a parrot alone could reproduce |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The laugh, pitched in a high key and coming from a so muscular frame, seemed like the whinny of an elephant. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications |
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Economic History | Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso has West Africa's largest elephant population. (references) |
Botswana | Providing facilities such as mobile safaris, elephant safaris, horseback safaris, hunting and fishing safaris and photographic safaris are areas with potential. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ukraine | Another abuse is the "baby elephant," in which a gas mask is placed on the prisoner's head and the flow of oxygen slowly reduced. (references) |
Political Economy | Sri Lanka | In 2000 the LTTE began a buildup on the Jaffna peninsula, and captured the important Elephant Pass military base. (references) |
Travel | Chad | Elephant Rock is 30 minutes away from Douguia. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet. |
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| "Elephant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.43% of the time. "Elephant" is used about 914 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) | 94.43% | 863 | 8,199 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.57% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Total | 100.00% | 914 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "elephant": african elephant ♦ bull elephant ♦ calf elephant ♦ cow elephant ♦ Double elephant paper ♦ Elephant apple ♦ elephant back groyne ♦ Elephant bed ♦ Elephant beetle ♦ elephant bird ♦ elephant bull ♦ elephant calf ♦ elephant cow ♦ elephant ear ♦ Elephant fish ♦ Elephant Man disease ♦ Elephant paper ♦ Elephant seal ♦ elephant shrew ♦ elephant tranquilizer ♦ elephant tree ♦ elephant trunk ♦ elephant yam ♦ female elephant ♦ imperial elephant ♦ indian elephant ♦ pad elephant ♦ pink elephant ♦ rogue elephant ♦ sea elephant ♦ trunk of an elephant ♦ water elephant ♦ white elephant. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "elephant": elephant-catching, elephant-cord, elephant-ear, elephant-grass, elephant-headed, elephant-horse, elephant-jokes, elephant-leg, elephant-like, elephant-lorry, elephant-man, Elephant-noses, elephant-of-the-sky, elephant-patterned, elephant-sized, elephant-tamer, elephant-tooth, elephant-tusk. | |
Ending with "elephant": baby-elephant, Dial-an-elephant, E-elephant, Half-an-elephant, sand-elephant, she-elephant. | |
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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 |
elephant list | 11,901 | hills like white elephant | 142 |
elephant | 5,493 | white elephant | 135 |
the elephant man | 1,087 | elephant seal | 127 |
indian elephant | 844 | asian elephant | 119 |
elephant figurine | 655 | elephant adult list | 114 |
stuffed elephant | 577 | pink elephant | 108 |
elephant collectible | 524 | elephant cartoon | 101 |
elephant t shirt | 493 | elephant tattoo | 101 |
glass elephant | 484 | elephant stripes white | 99 |
elephant toy | 463 | elephant photo | 98 |
elephant picture | 442 | elephant statue | 91 |
african elephant | 400 | elephant walk | 90 |
elephant and bar | 287 | com elephant list | 90 |
elephant ear | 261 | elephant sex | 89 |
elephant safari | 259 | elephant list adult links | 89 |
elephant lyrics man | 222 | baby elephant | 84 |
elephant gift | 207 | elephant butte | 81 |
elephant art | 207 | elephant mating | 81 |
elephant list.com | 164 | elephant penis | 73 |
elephant ear plant | 151 | ear elephant recipe | 70 |
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| Language | Translations for "elephant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | olifant. (various references) | |
Albanian | elefant (elephant bull, tusker). (various references) | |
Arabic | فيل صغير, فيل, الفيل (jumbo jet). (various references) | |
Asturian | elefante. (various references) | |
Bemba | insofu. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | innóóhksisii. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слонова кост (ivory), слон (jumbo). (various references) | |
Catalan | elefant. (various references) | |
Cebuano | elepante. (various references) | |
Chamorro | elifante. (various references) | |
Chinese | 象 (appearance, form, shape, to be like, to resemble, to seem, to take after), 像 (appearance, image, like, look, portrait, resemble, seem, similar, to appear, to look, to seem), 大象. (various references) | |
Cornish | olyfans. (various references) | |
Czech | slon (elephant bull, jumbo). (various references) | |
Danish | elefant. (various references) | |
Dutch | olifant. (various references) | |
Esperanto | elefanto, elefanta (elephant-, elephantine, elephant's, of an elephant). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fílur. (various references) | |
Finnish | norsu. (various references) | |
French | éléphant. (various references) | |
Frisian | oaljefant. (various references) | |
German | elefant. (various references) | |
Greek | ελέφαντασ, ελέφαντας. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | elefant. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פיל (tusker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elefánt (baby elephant). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fíll. (various references) | |
Indonesian | gajah (bishop). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | alipa. (various references) | |
Irish | eilifint. (various references) | |
Italian | elefante. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 象さん , 象 (phenomenon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞうさん (production increase), ぞう (bowels, figure, image, picture, portrait, statue, viscera). (various references) | |
Kongo | nzau. (various references) | |
Korean | 코끼리. (various references) | |
Macedonian | slon. (various references) | |
Malay | gajah. (various references) | |
Manx | elefant. (various references) | |
Norwegian | elefant. (various references) | |
Papago | al-huanthi. (various references) | |
Papiamen | elefante, olifant, olefante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elephantay.(various references) | |
Polish | słoń. (various references) | |
Portuguese | elefante (bull, cow). (various references) | |
Provencal | elefant. (various references) | |
Romanian | elefant (jumbo). (various references) | |
Romany | filos. (various references) | |
Ruanda | inzovu. (various references) | |
Russian | слон (elefant, elephant bull). (various references) | |
Samoan | elefane. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slon (tusker). (various references) | |
Shona | nzou. (various references) | |
Slovene | slon. (various references) | |
Spanish | elefante (elephant bull, jumbo, tusker). (various references) | |
Sranan | asaw. (various references) | |
Swahili | tembo, ndovu. (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-dlovu. (various references) | |
Swedish | elefant. (various references) | |
Turkish | fil (bishop), fíl. (various references) | |
Turkmen | pil (shovel). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | слонова кістка (ivory), слон (alp). (various references) | |
Welsh | eliffant, cawrfil. (various references) | |
Zulu | indlovu. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | am-si. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | barrus, ebore, eboris, ebur, elefanti, elefantis, elefantorum, elefantos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elephant": elephantiases, elephantiasis, elephantine, elephants. (additional references) | |
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"Elephant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clephan, elaphant, elefant, elephanta, elephantoid, elephanty, elephent, eliphant, elphant, oliphaunt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elephant" (pronounced e"lufunt) |
| 4 | -f u n t | infant, triumphant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, 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