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Definition: Lorelei |
LoreleiNoun1. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Lorelei" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an ambush cliff". |
Date "Lorelei" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | LORELEI, said to be a beautiful German lady who always hides herself when the tourist goes down the Rhine. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A 13th-century legend entitled Der Marner says that the Nibelungen treasure was hidden beneath the rock. The tale may be connnected with the myth of Holda, queen of the elves. The queen supposedly sits combing her locks on the Hullenstein, and the man who sees her loses sight of reason, while he who listens is condemned to wander with her for ever. The legend, which Clement Brentano claimed as his own invention when he wrote his poem “Zu Bacharach am Rheine" in his novel of Godwi (1802), bears all the marks of popular mythology. In the 19th century it formed material for a great number of songs, dramatic sketches, and operas, which are enumerated by Dr Hermann Seeliger in his Loreleysage in Dichtung und Musik (Leipzig-Reudnitz, 1898). The favourite poem with composers was Heine's, set to music by some twenty-five musicians, the settings by Friedrich Silcher (from an old folk-song) and by Liszt being the most famous.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lorelei."
Crosswords: Lorelei |
| Specialty definitions using "Lorelei": LORELEI. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lorelei" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (Lorelei). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Lorelei (1931) Lorelei of the Sea (1917) Abduction of Lorelei (1978) Las Garras de Lorelei (1976) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Lorelei!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lorelei. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Lorelei Rock (Rhine). Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Lorelei" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Lorelei" 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 (proper) | 83.33% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (plural) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Lorelei" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lorelei | First name Female | 3,000 | 1,922 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Lorelei" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an ambush cliff". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Lorelei." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Lure | Female | N/A | Lorelei |
| Lorelei | Female | Germanic 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 |
lorelei | 166 | lorelei rock | 3 |
1601 202 dr lorelei | 19 | lorelei shellist | 3 |
lorelei bondage | 12 | jewelry lorelei | 3 |
lorelei bondage bedroom | 12 | bound lorelei | 3 |
bedroom lorelei | 8 | emma lorelei sharkey taylor | 3 |
lake lorelei | 8 | inc lorelei personnel | 2 |
links lorelei | 6 | lorelei nymph singing | 2 |
die lorelei | 5 | bondage links lorelei | 2 |
lorelei personnel | 4 | bedroom bondage lorelei s | 2 |
legend lorelei | 4 | germany lorelei | 2 |
lorelei king | 4 | lorelei myth | 2 |
lee lorelei | 4 | heine lorelei | 2 |
lorelei resort | 4 | lorelei lyrics | 2 |
lake lorelei ohio | 4 | lorelei poem | 2 |
lorelei stanley | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Lorelei"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Lorelei. (various references) | ||||
Esperanto | Lorelejo. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oreleilay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Lorelei" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Loerke, Loriley, Lurleen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-l-o-r" | |
-2 letters: iller, oiler, oriel, reoil, rille. | |
-3 letters: leer, lier, lire, lore, orle, reel, riel, rile, rill, roil, role, roll. | |
-4 letters: eel, ell, ere, ill, ire, lee, lei, lie, oil, ole, ore, ree, rei, roe. | |
-5 letters: el, er, li, lo, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: lonelier, lovelier. | |
+2 letters: corbeille, rebellion. | |
+3 letters: allegories, allegorise, allegorize, collieries, corbeilles, drolleries, flowerlike, gorbellies, immortelle, neoliberal, overbilled, overfilled, overkilled, pollenizer, rebellions, rebellious, recoilless, slovenlier, unlovelier. | |
+4 letters: allegorised, allegorises, allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizes, allometries, allosteries, boilerplate, foretelling, immortelles, intolerable, irresoluble, lobsterlike, misenrolled, neoliberals, overchilled, overliteral, overselling, pellitories, pollenizers, reenrolling, remodelling, titleholder, volkslieder, vorticellae. | |
+5 letters: allegorizers, banderillero, boilerplates, ceremonially, crenellation, electrolysis, electrolytic, electrophile, ensorcelling, esoterically, exoterically, heliolatries, hemerocallis, irresolutely, irresolvable, lordlinesses, meteorically, peritoneally, radiolabeled, rebelliously, recollecting, recollection, reconcilable, reflectional, religionless, thermolabile, titleholders, tredecillion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 6F 72 65 6C 65 69 |
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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).-.. --- .-. . .-.. . .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L o r e l e i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 006F 0072 0065 006C 0065 0069 |
| 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)46818471787175 |
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