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Definition: GIGANTOMACHY |
GIGANTOMACHYNoun1. A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven. |
Etymology: Gigantomachy \Gi`gan*tom"a*chy\, noun. [Latin expression gigantomachia, from the Greek expression giant battle: compare to the French expression gigantomachie.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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 |
gigantomachy | 2 |
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"GIGANTOMACHY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gygantomachy, Titanomachy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GIGANTOMACHY" (pronounced 'Gi`gan*tom"a*chy'): Acouchy, Alectoromachy, Alectryom'achy, Autarchy, Batrachomyomachy, Centauromachy, Clechy, Cynarctomachy, Dinarchy, Duarchy, Entelechy, Gunarchy, Gynarchy, Hagiarchy, Iconomachy, Logomachy, Megalopsychy, Naumachy, Oligarchy, Orthostichy, Paparchy, Parastichy, Pentarchy, Plutarchy, Polarchy, Polyarchy, Psychomachy, Sciamachy, Sciomachy, sennachy, Synarchy, Tauromachy, Thearchy, Theomachy, Triarchy, Whiggarchy, Xenodochy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-g-h-i-m-n-o-t-y" | |
-3 letters: antimacho. | |
-4 letters: anagogic, anatomic, contagia, hogmanay, hogtying, homaging, mahogany, matching, yachting, yachtman. | |
-5 letters: acanthi, agnatic, anagogy, anatomy, angioma, animato, antigay, coaming, coating, cymatia, gigaton, gingham, gnathic, hangtag, maggoty, mahonia, manihot, manioca, moating, oghamic, tachyon. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 49 47 41 4E 54 4F 4D 41 43 48 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. --. .- -. - --- -- .- -.-. .... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001001 01000111 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001111 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I G A N T O M A C H Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 0047 0041 004E 0054 004F 004D 0041 0043 0048 0059 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)414341354854494735374259 |
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