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Definition: HOROLOGE |
HOROLOGENoun1. 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. |
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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: HOROLOGE |
| English words defined with "HOROLOGE": Horological. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HOROLOGE": Hour. (references) |
| 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 |
horologe | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HOROLOGE": horologes. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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