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Definition: Melpomene |
MelpomeneNoun1. (Greek mythology) the Muse of tragedy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Melpomene" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a choir". |
Date "Melpomene" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Etymology: Melpomene \Mel*pom"e*ne\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, literally, the songstress, from to sing.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Melpomene" is a common misspelling or typo for: elopement, employee, employment. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Melpomene (4 syl.). The muse of tragedy. The best painting of this muse is by Le Brun, at Versailles. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Melpomene."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis. |
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Music |
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| "Melpomene" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Melpomene" is used about 4 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) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Melpomene": melpomene and Thalia. Additional references. | |
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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 |
melpomene | 24 |
melpomene sister | 7 |
calliope clio erato euterpe melpomene pollinia talia tersicore urania | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Melpomene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Portuguese | melpômene, melão (melon). (various references) | |
Russian | Мельпомена. (various references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "Melpomene" (pronounced 'Mel*pom"e*ne'): Abalone, Abietene, Acanthine, Acarine, Acauline, Accipitrine, Acervuline, Acetone, Acetophenone, Acetylene, Acne, Acolyctine, Aconitine, Actinophone, Adamantine, Advene, Aerophone, Affine, Agatine, Aitchbone, Alabastrine, Alanine, Aldine, Aleurone, Aliene, Aline, Alkaline, Allylene, Almandine, Almondine, Alphonsine, Alpigene, Alpine, Alumine, Alvine, Amandine, Amanitine, Amaranthine, Amarine, Amethystine, Amine, Amphigene, Amphopeptone, Amygdaline, Amylene, Anatine, Andesine, Andine, Androgyne, Angevine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-m-m-n-o-p" | |
-3 letters: pommee, pommel. | |
-4 letters: elope, lemon, leone, melee, melon, pelon. | |
-5 letters: enol, epee, leno, lone, lope, meme, memo, meno, mole, mome, mope, neem, neep, noel, nome, nope, omen, open, peel, peen, pele, peon, poem, pole, pome, pone. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-m-m-n-o-p" | |
+3 letters: complemented, reemployment. | |
+4 letters: preemployment, reemployments. | |
+5 letters: complementizer, preemployments. | |
| 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)4D 65 6C 70 6F 6D 65 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "Melpomene" |
