Gilgamesh

Definition: Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Noun

1. A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories.

Date "Gilgamesh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Modern Usage: Gilgamesh

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Gilgamesh Night (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Gilgamesh

Domain	Title
Books	Caravan of Dreams Theater: Gilgamesh, Marouf the Cobbler, Faust Part 1 (reference) The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels (reference) Out of This World: Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Gilgamesh" is used about 21 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)	85.71%	18	82,615
Noun (singular)	9.52%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.76%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

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

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Expression: Gilgamesh

Expression using "Gilgamesh": Epic of Gilgamesh. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gilgamesh

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
gilgamesh	398	another fine gilgamesh	2
epic of gilgamesh	146	gilgamesh theme	2
gilgamesh summary	9	epic gilgamesh story	2
epic gilgamesh summary	9	de epopeya gilgamesh la	2
flood of gilgamesh	7	gilgamesh night	2
gilgamesh story	6	de gilgamesh poema	2
gilgamesh picture	5	audio gilgamesh tape	2
de epopeya gilgamesh	4	dream gilgamesh	2
enkidu gilgamesh	4	epic gilgamesh theme	2
gilgamesh unit	4	gilgamesh tomb	2
bible gilgamesh	4	gilgamesh odysseus	2
essay on gilgamesh	3	flood gilgamesh noah	2
clinton gilgamesh	3	gilgamesh heroism in	2
genesis gilgamesh	3	cliff gilgamesh note	2
gilgamesh who	3	gilgamesh noah	2
character gilgamesh	3	compare epic flood gilgamesh great	2
ancient flood gilgamesh	2	between comparison flood genesis gilgamesh koran story	2
characteristic gilgamesh	2
		between comparison flood genesis gilgamesh koran story	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gilgamesh

Language		Translations for "Gilgamesh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		Gilgamesj. (various references)

Esperanto		Gilgameŝo. (various references)

Pig Latin		ilgameshgay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Gilgamesh

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-l-m-s"
	-2 letters: haggles, higgles, miggles, milages.
	-3 letters: ageism, aggies, almehs, emails, geisha, gimels, gleams, glimes, haggis, haggle, hiemal, higgle, images, laighs, ligase, mailes, mashie, mesial, miggle, milage, samiel, sheila, silage, sleigh.
	-4 letters: aegis, aggie, agile, agism, aisle, almeh, almes, amies, email, gages, gales, games, gigas, gighe, gimel, gleam, glias, glime, glims, haems, hails, hales, halms.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-l-m-s"
	+5 letters: hemagglutinins.
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