Galatea

Definition: Galatea

Galatea

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.

Date "Galatea" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Galatea \Gal`a*te"a\, noun. [After Galatea, British man-of-war, the material being used for children's sailor suits.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Galatea

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Cotton cloth for children garments; twill weave warp 2/1. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Galatea

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Greek mythology, Galatea ("she who is milk-white") was the name of a Sicilian Nereid loved by the Cyclops Polyphemus. She, however, loved a Sicilian youth named Acis, whom Polyphemus killed with a boulder in a jealous rage. Distraught, Galatea turned his blood into the river Acis in Sicily.
Galatea was also the name of the maiden who was originally a statue carved by Pygmalion, created in the image of, and brought to life by Aphrodite. (See also Educating Rita for a modern-day version of this myth.)

Galatea is the fourth known moon of Neptune, named after the Nereid of Greek legend. It was discovered in 1989 by Voyager 2 and very little is known about it. It is irregularly shaped and shows no sign of any geological modification. Since its orbit is below Neptune's synchronous orbit radius it is slowly decaying due to tidal forces and will one day break up into a planetary ring or impact on Neptune's surface.

Orbital radius: 62,000 km
Diameter: 158 km
Mass: Unknown
Orbital period: 0.428745 days
Orbital inclination: 0.05°

The HMS Galatea was a British cruiser that participated in the Battle of Jutland of World War I.

Mount Galatea (3185 meters) is a peak in the Kananaskis region of the Canadian Rockies.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Galatea."

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Crosswords: Galatea

English words defined with "Galatea": Pygmalion. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Galatea": Acis ♦ Birth ♦ Fuga ad Salices ♦ Galate'a ♦ Sea Deities. (references)

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Modern Usage: Galatea

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Den Sköna Galatea (1963)

Il Mistero di Galatea (1918)

Pimple and Galatea (1914)

The Modern Pygmalion and Galatea (1911)

A Magical Galatea (1907)

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Commercial Usage: Galatea

Domain	Title
Books	Galatea : a novel (reference) Galatea in 2-D (reference) Galatea, La (reference) Pastoral poetics : the uses of conventions in Renaissance pastoral romances : Arcadia, La Diana, La Galatea, L�Astrée (reference) The Suffering God: Selected Letters to Galatea and to Papastephanou (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Handel - Acis and Galatea / Daneman, Petibon, Agnew, Cornwell, A. Ewing, Les Arts Florissants, Christie (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Galatea

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
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Usage Frequency: Galatea

"Galatea" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Galatea" is used about 5 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%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Galatea

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
galatea	32
pygmalion galatea	16
galatea sphere	6
galatea raphael	3
galatea polifemo y	3
hotel galatea	2
galatea jewelry	2
acis galatea	2
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Modern Translations: Galatea

Language		Translations for "Galatea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Galatea. (various references)

French		galatea. (various references)

German		Galatea. (various references)

Italian		galatea. (various references)

Pig Latin		alateagay.(various references)

Portuguese		galatea. (various references)

Spanish		galatea. (various references)
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Derivations: Galatea

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Galatea": galateas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Galatea"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Galatea" (pronounced ga'lutē"u)
3	-t ē" u	tortilla.
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Anagrams: Galatea

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-l-t"
	-2 letters: agate, aglet, alate, algae, galea.
	-3 letters: alae, alga, egal, gala, gale, gate, gelt, geta, late, tael, tala, tale, teal, tela.
	-4 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, alt, ate, eat, eta, gae, gal, gat, gel, get, lag, lat, lea, leg, let, tae, tag, tea, teg, tel.
	-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, al, at, el, et, la, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-g-l-t"
	+1 letter: galateas.
	+3 letters: amalgamate, galavanted, metagalaxy.
	+4 letters: amalgamated, amalgamates, egalitarian.
	+5 letters: egalitarians, galactorrhea, galactosemia, managemental, metagalactic, metagalaxies, metalanguage.
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