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Definition: Hesperides |
HesperidesNoun1. (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Hesperides" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Etymology: Hesperides \Hes*per"i*des\, plural noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Hesperides (4 syl.). Three sisters who guarded the golden apples which Hera (Juno) received as a marriage gift. They were assisted by the dragon Ladon. Many English poets call the place where these golden apples grew the "garden of the Hesperides." Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 3) speaks of climbing trees in the Hesperides." (See Comus, lines 402-406.) "Show thee the tree, leafed with refinëd gold, Whereon the fearful dragon held his seat. That watched the garden called Hesperides." Robert Grene: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. (1508.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There were four Hesperides: Aegle ("dazzling light"), Arethusa, Erytheia, and Hesperia. They are sometimes also called the African Sisters.
They are variously daughters of Phorcys or Nyx or Atlas and Hesperia. The ancients also named Hesperides some islands on the extreme west of their known world. They may have been the Canary Islands or Cape Verde.
Hesperides was the original name of a Greek city in Cyrenaica, North Africa, that was traditionally founded in 446 BCE, by a brother of the king of Cyrene. The city was refounded in the Ptolemaic period as Berenice, the name by which it is generally remembered. (It is the site of the modern seaport of Benghazi, Libya.)
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Synonym: HesperidesSynonym: Atlantides (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heaven | Olympus; Elysium, Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven; Valhalla, Walhalla (Scandinavian); Nirvana (Buddhist); happy hunting grounds; Alfardaws, Assama; Falak al aflak "the highest heaven" (Mohammedan). |
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Crosswords: Hesperides |
| Specialty definitions using "Hesperides": African Sisters ♦ Farnese Hercules ♦ Hock Cart ♦ Ladon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Hesperides": Hesperidium. (references) |
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| "Hesperides" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Hesperides" is used about 12 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 (plural) | 75% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | 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 |
hesperides | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "Hesperides"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | hespérides. (various references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "Hesperides" (pronounced 'Hes*per"i*des'): Alectorides, Antipodes, Archimedes, Caryatides, Dasypaedes, Epitithides, Eumenides, Fides, Hades, Hylodes, Ichneumonides, IDES, Ironsides, Ixodes, Oreades, Palmipedes, Papilionides, Paradoxides, Phryganeides, Pierides, Pinnipedes, Placoides, Pleiades, Psilopaedes, Ptilopaedes, Pygropodes, Rhaphides, Rheumides, Samoyedes, Silkensides, Slickensides, Sordes, Sporades, Steganopodes, Tenthredinides, Tinamides, Xylophagides. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: despiser, diereses, disperse, heresies, perished, perishes, presides, speeders, speedier. | |
-3 letters: depress, desires, despise, heeders, heiress, heredes, peeress, peeries, preside, pressed, prissed, reseeds, reships, resides, seeders, seedier, seepier, sheered, speeder, speered, speired, sphered, spheres, spiders, spiered. | |
-4 letters: deeper, desire, dieses, dishes, eiders, espied, espies, heders, heeder, heired, herpes, hiders, hissed, hisser, peered, peerie, peised. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s" | |
+3 letters: sheepherdings. | |
+4 letters: preestablished. | |
+5 letters: hypersensitized, underemphasizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 73 70 65 72 69 64 65 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . ... .--. . .-. .. -.. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e s p e r i d e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0073 0070 0065 0072 0069 0064 0065 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42718582718475707185 |
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