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Definition: Laertes |
LaertesNoun1. (Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Laertes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Laertes (3 syl.). Son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia. He kills Hamlet with a poisoned rapier, and dies himself from a wound by the same foil. (Shakespeare: Hamlet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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After Odysseus and Telemachus routed the suitors that had been threatening his wife, Penelope, some of the suitors' surviving relatives confronted them. Athena infused vigor into Laertes, so he could help Odysseus by killing Eupeithes, father of Antinous.
Homer, Odyssey XXIV; Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, 315.
Laertes is also a character in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laertes."
Crosswords: Laertes |
| Specialty definitions using "Laertes": Ithacensian Suitors. (references) |
| "Laertes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Laertes" 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 (plural) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
laertes | 17 |
hamlet laertes | 7 |
advice laertes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laertes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | aerteslay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: elaters, realest, relates, reslate, stealer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: alerts, alters, aretes, artels, easter, eaters, elater, elates, estral, larees, laster, leaser, ratels, reales, relate, relets, resale, reseal, reseat, salter, sealer, seater, slater, staler, stelae, stelar, streel, talers, teasel, teaser. | |
-2 letters: alert, alter, arete, arles, artel, aster, earls, easel, eater, elate, erase, ester, laree, lares, laser, later, lears, lease, least, leers, leets, rales, ratel, rates, reals, reels, reest, relet, reset, saree, seral, setae, setal, slate, sleet, stale, stare, steal, steel, steer, stela, stele, stere, taels, taler, tales, tares, teals, tears, tease, teels, telae, teles, terse, tesla, trees. | |
-3 letters: alee, ales, alts, ares, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, ease, east, eats, eels, else, eras, erst, etas, lars, lase, last, late, lats, lear, leas, leer, lees, leet, lest, lets, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, sale, salt, sate, seal, sear, seat, seel, seer, sera, sere, seta, slat, star, tael, tale, tare, tars, teal, tear, teas, teel, tees, tela, tele, tels, tree, tsar. | |
-4 letters: ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ear, eat, eel, els, era, ere, ers, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, lee, let, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sal, sat, sea, see, sel, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, tel. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: alertest, alterers, arbelest, ateliers, bleaters, clearest, desalter, earliest, easterly, eternals, exalters, halteres, leariest, leathers, oleaster, petrales, pleaters, prelates, realters, realties, reflates, relaters, replates, resalute, reslated, reslates, retables, stealers, tearless, teaseler, telerans, treacles, treadles. | |
+2 letters: aerolites, alertness, arbelests, austerely, axletrees, beastlier, bleariest, bracelets, cartelise, cellarets, cervelats, corelates, decretals, deflaters, desalters, desolater, detailers, earnestly, eglateres, elastomer, elaterids, elaterins, elevators, entailers, externals, falterers, fenestral, heartless, lacerates, laetriles, lamenters, lannerets, lateeners, laterites, laterizes, latherers, laureates, levanters, levatores, levirates, liberates, literates, materiels, misrelate, nearliest, oleasters, palestrae, palterers, pearliest, pearlites, plastered, plasterer, praelects, raclettes, realities, regelates, regulates, relatives, relegates, relocates, replaster, resaluted, resalutes, retackles, retailers, roseately, salometer, saltpeter, semestral, seriately, severalty, slathered, statelier, steelyard, steerable, streamlet, tafferels, teaselers, telegrams, telemarks, terrellas, tolerates, traceless, travelers, treadlers, treadless, treelawns, treenails, trehalose, ulcerates, valerates, versatile, waterless. | |
+3 letters: adulterers, adulteress, adulteries, afterlives, aliterates, altercates, alternates, altimeters, arterioles, assertedly, blastomere, blatherers, bracteoles, breathless, calentures, cartelised, cartelises, cartelizes, cartwheels, celebrants, celebrates, centralest, centralise, clatterers, correlates, craterlets, decaliters, defaulters, dekaliters, delegators, delftwares, desolaters, disrelated, earthliest, easterlies, elaborates, elastomers, elaterites, elutriates, entanglers, fatherless, federalist, flatteners, flatterers, flatteries, forecastle, generalist, interlaces, intervales, latecomers, lazarettes, lethargies, limewaters, linecaster, literacies, lusterware, meliorates, meltwaters, metalwares, misaltered, misrelated, misrelates, neorealist, neutralise, oversalted, palaestrae, parentless, percolates, periosteal, plaistered, plasterers, pleasanter, prelatures, prevalents, psalteries, ravelments, rectangles, reescalate, regalities, reinflates, relocatees, reluctates, repellants, replasters, replicates, resectable, resemblant, resettable, restorable, retaliates, retrievals, revaluates, revelators, revitalise, saddletree, salometers, saltpeters, semestrial, separately, sphalerite, splattered, stealthier, steelmaker, steelyards, stepladder, streamlets, streamline, streetlamp, tablewares, tailenders, telecaster, telegraphs, threadless, tolerances, tracheoles, travellers, trehaloses, treillages, tutelaries, ultradense, unclearest, varletries, waterleafs, waterlines, zealotries. | |
+4 letters: accelerants, accelerates, adulterates, aeroelastic, aldosterone, alertnesses, aliteracies, allegrettos, alliterates, allometries, allosteries, allurements, altarpieces, altimetries, altogethers, ameliorates, artilleries, artlessness, assertively, bilgewaters, blastomeres, breastplate, brocatelles, cantilevers, carefullest, celebrators, cellarettes, centralised, centralises, centralizes, credentials, crestfallen, decelerates, deerstalker, deflagrates, deliberates, delineators, derailments, deregulates, desperately, earthliness, edulcorates, elastomeric, electorates, electuaries, elucubrates, establisher, eternalizes, eternalness, everlasting, exhilarates, externalise, externalism, extralities, fearfullest, featherless, featureless, federalists, forecastles, forestalled, forestaller, galleryites, generalists, glabrescent, goaltenders, harvestable, heartlessly, heartsomely, illiterates, intercensal, interlayers, interleaves, internalise, interpleads, intersexual, irrealities, lateralizes, laundrettes, leafleteers, legislature, letterheads, letterspace, lighterages, linearities, linecasters, literalizes, literalness, literatures, littermates, lusterwares, maltreaters, materialise, naltrexones, neorealists, neutralised, neutralises, neutralizes, neutralness, obliterates, outgenerals, overmantels, palletizers, partnerless, patternless, pearlescent, peristalses, planimeters, platemakers, plateresque, presentable, presentably, quarterlies, rabblements, rathskeller, rattlesnake, reallocates, receptacles, reescalated, reescalates, reestablish, reevaluates, regimentals, registrable, reinstalled, relatedness, relativizes, relegations, reluctances, replastered, repopulates, reregulates, residential, respectable, respectably, restabilize, restartable, restimulate, reticulates, retranslate, returnables, revalidates, revealments, revelations, revitalised, revitalises, revitalizes, saddletrees, saleratuses, salinometer, secretarial, semitrailer, sempiternal, servantless, severalties, slaughtered, slaughterer, sphalerites, stakeholder, startlement, steamrolled, steamroller, steelmakers, stepladders, stonewaller, straplesses, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines, streetlamps, stretchable, subliterate, superaltern, superlative, tabernacles, talebearers, tearfulness, teetotalers, telecasters, terneplates, terrestrial, tetherballs, tetralogies, thermalizes, timepleaser, trailerites, travelogues, traversable, treasonable, treasurable, triathletes, turtleheads, ultrasecret, unrealities, versatilely, watermelons, waterwheels, wentletraps. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 65 72 74 65 73 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- . .-. - . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100101 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a e r t e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0065 0072 0074 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)46677184867185 |
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