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HOROLOGE

Definition: HOROLOGE

HOROLOGE

Noun

1. An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial.

2. A servant who called out the hours.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HOROLOGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Horologe \Hor"o*loge\, noun. [from Old English expression horologe, orloge, timepiece, Old French horloge, orloge, oriloge, French horloge, from Latin expression horologium, from the Greek expression hour to say, tell. See Hour, and Logic.]. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: HOROLOGE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Instantaneity

Clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra; ghurry.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: HOROLOGE

English words defined with "HOROLOGE": Horological. (references)
Etymologies containing "HOROLOGE": Hour. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HOROLOGE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

horologe

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HOROLOGE

Language Translations for "HOROLOGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sahat (clock, counter, meter, ticker, watch), orë (albanian nymph, clock, fate, hour, ticker, time, timepiece, watch), kohëmatës (stopwatch, timekeeper, timer). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

часовник (clock, ticker, tick-tack, timekeeper, timepiece, timer, watch). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přenosné hodiny. (various references)

   

German

  

Zeitmessgerät. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ωρολόγιο (repeater, timepiece). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אורלו'ין (clock, timepiece). (various references)

   

Italian

  

meridiana (dial, sundial). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orologehay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

pendulã (clock, grandfather clock, pendulum, poise, ticker), orologiu (clock, timepiece). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

часы (clock, ticker, timepiece, timer, watch, wristwatch). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sunčani sat (sundial, sun-dial). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saat (clock, hour, meter, o'clock, ticker, time, timer, watch). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đ"ng h" (timepiece). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HOROLOGE

Derivations

Words beginning with "HOROLOGE": horologes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"HOROLOGE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hirulog, horigome, horloge, horloger, Horologii, horologium, orlogge, Orologio, Oroogu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HOROLOGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-l-o-o-o-r"

-3 letters: ogler.

-4 letters: ergo, goer, gore, helo, herl, hero, hoer, hole, lehr, loge, logo, lore, ogle, ogre, oleo, orle, role.

-5 letters: ego, erg, gel, goo, gor, her, hoe, hog, leg, log, loo, oho, ole, ooh, ore, reg, rho, roe.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-h-l-o-o-o-r"
 

+1 letter: horologes.

 

+2 letters: horologies.

 

+3 letters: chronologer, homologizer.

 

+4 letters: chronologers, chronologies, geohydrology, heterologous, homologizers, morphologies.

 

+5 letters: geochronology, geohydrologic, geomorphology, ornithologies, orthogonalize.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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