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Definition: Hebe |
HebeNoun1. (Greek mythology) the goddess of youth and spring; wife of Hercules; daughter of Zeus and Hera; cupbearer to the Olympian gods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Hebe" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be young". |
Date "Hebe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Etymology: Hebe \He"be\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression "h`bh youth, "H`bh Hebe.]. (references) |
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Literature | Hebe (2 syl.). Goddess of youth, and cup-bearer to the celestial gods. She had the power of restoring the aged to youth and beauty. (Greek mythology.) "Wreathëd smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek." Milton: L'Allegro. Hebe vases. Small vases like a cotyliscos. So termed because Hebeis represented as bearing one containing nectar for the gods. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hebe is a word with multiple meanings:
- In Greek mythology, Hebe was the goddess of youth.
- Hebe is a genus of plants native to New Zealand.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hebe."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology, Hebe was the goddess of youth (Roman equivalent: Juventas). She was the daughter of Zeus and Hera. She was the cupbearer for the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, serving their nectar and ambrosia, until she was married to Heracles. Her successor is the young Trojan prince Ganymede. She also drew baths for Ares and helped Hera enter her chariot.
In art, she was usually depicted wearing a sleeveless dress.
The name "Hebe" came from Greek work meaning "youth" or "prime of life".
In Roman mythology, Juventas ("youth") received a coin offering from boys when they put on the adult men's toga for the first time.
Other sites: pantheon.org American Heritage dictionary: dictionary.com Merriem-Webster's Collegiate: m-w.com encarta.com
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hebe (mythology)."
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Hebe is a genus of plants native to New Zealand. There are over 100 species of hebes. They have rows of leaves, which are arranged in pairs, each pair perpendicular to the leaves below it. Their flowers are composed of many smaller flowerlets.
Hebe Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Scrophulariales Family: Scrophulariaceae Genus: Hebe Species Hebe acutiflora
Hebe affinis
Hebe albicans
Hebe andersonii
Hebe buxifolia
Hebe cupressoides
Hebe franciscana
Hebe ochracea
Hebe pauciramosa
Hebe pinguifolia
Hebe speciosa
Hebe stricta
Hebe trisepala
Hebe venustula
Hebe xfranciscana
The plants range in size from dwarf shrubs to small trees up to 7 metres. They grow throughout the country, and are cultivated in many gardens and public areas. Hebes cope with most soil types, and can be propagated easily from both cuttings and seedlings.
Hebe pauciramosa in the Dunedin botanical gardens.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hebe (plant)."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus. |
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Crosswords: Hebe |
| Non-English Usage: "Hebe" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (liftings), Portuguese (hebe). |
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Screenplays | He said if Uncle Archie knew he would call be a Hebe. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) You worse than that hebe congressman Sam Irving (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hebe (1966) | |
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Minorities | Argentina | In October political activist Hebe de Bonafini referred to prominent human rights activist and journalist Horacio Verbitsky as a Jew in a derogatory fashion in a news magazine interview. (references) |
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| "Hebe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Hebe" is used about 9 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) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Hebe" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be young". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Hebe." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Hebe | Female | English | N/A |
| Hebe | Female | Greek Mythology | N/A |
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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 |
hebe | 86 | hebe picture | 3 |
ella hebe selina | 26 | hebe tian | 3 |
camargo hebe | 13 | hebe statue | 3 |
hebe s.h.e | 10 | hebe veronica | 2 |
ella hebe s.h.e selina | 8 | da deusa grega hebe mitologia | 2 |
hebe plant | 7 | hebe tien | 2 |
buxifolia hebe | 4 | goddess greek hebe | 2 |
ella hebe selina wallpaper | 4 | hebe pattys purple | 2 |
goddess hebe | 4 | goddess hebe youth | 2 |
hebe shrub | 3 | andersonii hebe | 2 |
hebe she | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "Hebe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | хеба, келнерка (waitress). (various references) | |
Czech | bohynì mládÃ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kávéházi felszolgálólány. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebehay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hebe, copeira (kitchen-maid). (various references) | |
Russian | кельнерша, геба, девушка в баре. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | heba, konobarica (barmaid, waitress). (various references) | |
Spanish | judÃo (Israelite, jew, jewish, kike, yiddish). (various references) | |
Turkish | gençlik tanrıçası, gençlik ilahesi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кельнерка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cô phục vụ ở quầy rượu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Hebe": hebephrenia, hebephrenias, hebephrenic, hebephrenics, hebes, hebetate, hebetated, hebetates, hebetating, hebetation, hebetations, hebetic, hebetude, hebetudes, hebetudinous. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Hebe": ephebe, thebe. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Hebe": chebec, chebecs, ephebes, shebean, shebeans, shebeen, shebeens, thebes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Hebe" (pronounced hē"b) |
| 2 | -ē" b | Caribe, grebe. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-h" | |
-1 letter: bee. | |
-2 letters: be, eh, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h" | |
+1 letter: beech, hebes, thebe. | |
+2 letters: beechy, behave, behead, beheld, behest, behove, bethel, breech, chebec, ephebe, ephebi, herbed, hereby, phoebe, thebes. | |
+3 letters: banshee, beached, beaches, beechen, beeches, beehive, behaved, behaver, behaves, beheads, behests, behoove, behoved, behoves, belched, belcher, belches, benched, bencher, benches, beneath, berhyme, berthed, beseech, beshame, beshrew, bethels, bheesty, blether, bobeche, bouchee, breathe, chebecs, ephebes, ephebic, epheboi, ephebos, ephebus, hebetic, henbane, herbage, herbier, hewable, phoebes, shebean, shebeen, sherbet, thereby, whereby. | |
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