NIOBE

Definition: NIOBE

NIOBE

Noun

1. The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

Etymology: Niobe \Ni"o*be\, noun. [Latin expression Nioba, Niobe, gr.]. (Websters 1913)

"NIOBE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Nib, Niece, Nimbi, Niobium, Nobel, Noble, Noise, Noose.

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Niobe (3 syl.). The personification of female sorrow. According to Grecian fable, Niobe was the mother of twelve children, and taunted Latona because she had only two- namely, Apollo and Diana. Latona commanded her children to avenge the insult, and they caused all the sons and daughters of Niobe to die. Niobe was inconsolable, wept herself to death, and was changed into a stone, from which ran water, "Like Niobe, all tears" (Hamlet.) The group of Niobe and her children, in Florence, was discovered at Rome in 1583, and was the work either of Scopas or Praxiteles. The Niobe of nations. So Lord Byron styles Rome, the "lone mother of dead empires," with "broken thrones and temples;" a "chaos of ruins;" a "desert where we steer stumbling o'er recollections." (Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 79.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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A mortal woman in Greek mythology, Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and either Euryanassa, Eurythemista, Clytia, Dione, Laodice, wife of Amphion, boasted of her superiority to Leto because she had fourteen children (Niobids), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two. Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, with the last begging for his life, and Artemis her daughters. Apollo and Artemis used poisoned arrows to kill them, though according to some versions a number of the Niobids were spared (Chloris, usually). Amphion, at the sight of his dead sons, either killed himself or was killed by Apollo after swearing revenge. A devastated Niobe fled to Mt. Siplyon in Asia Minor and turned into stone as she wept, or committed suicide. Her tears formed the river Achelous. Zeus had turned all the people of Thebes to stone and so no one buried the Niobids until the ninth day after their death, when the gods themselves entombed them.

Mt. Sipylus has a carving of a female face on it that the locals claimed was Niobe, though it was probably originally intended to be Cybele. The rock appears to weep because it is porous limestone and rainwater seeps through the pores.

Aedon was the queen of Thebes who attempted to kill the son of her rival, Niobe, also her sister-in-law (Aedon was married to Zethus), and accidentally killed her own daughter, Itylus instead and thus, the gods again changed her into a nightingale.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lamentation	In tears, with tears in one's eyes; with moistened eyes, with watery eyes; bathed in tears, dissolved in tears; "like Niobe all tears".
Pain	Phrase: "the iron entered into our soul"; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; one's heart bleeding; "down, thou climbing sorrow"; "mirth cannot move a soul in agony"; nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria; "sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things"; "the Niobe of Nations".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: NIOBE

Etymologies containing "NIOBE": Pelopium. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Niobe (1915)
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Domain	Title
Books	Der Untergang der Niobe : was geschah im Fehmarn-Belt? (reference) Frèuhe Stèucke : Lacrimas (1803), Niobe (1807), Der Graf und die Grèafin von Gleichen (1807) : Faksimiledruck nach den Erstausgaben (reference) Il Tondo Doni di Michelangelo e il suo restauro : Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi, Sala della Niobe, dal 7 dicembre 1985 (reference) La Statua del guerriero ferito : storia, prospettive esegetiche, restauri di un originale greco : Galleria degli Uffizi, Sala della Niobe dal 7 dicembre 1992 (reference) L'Ultimo Giorno Di Pompei and Excerpts from Niobe (Italian Opera 1810-1840, Vol 32) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Scott: Minerva's Web/The Tears of Niobe (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Niobe.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"NIOBE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NIOBE" is used about 2 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)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "NIOBE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Thai		เทพธิ�"าในนิทานกรีก. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "NIOBE" (pronounced 'Ni"o*be'): Ascribe, Astrolabe, Aube, BABE, Berbe, Caribe, Cephalotribe, Circumscribe, Conscribe, Corbe, Cosmolabe, Diatribe, Disrobe, Enbibe, Enrobe, Exscribe, Fulbe, Galbe, Gerbe, Glebe, grebe, Hebe, imbibe, Incube, Inglobe, inscribe, Interscribe, kibe, lobe, Mesolabe, Misarcribe, Misdescribe, Obbe, Outbribe, Phebe, Plebe, Postscribe, Proscribe, Rescribe, Ribibe, Subtribe, superscribe, Syllabe, Thysbe, transcribe, Tsebe, Umbe, Unbe, Unrobe, Wardrobe, Would-be, Ybe. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-i-n-o"
	-1 letter: bine, bone, ebon.
	-2 letters: ben, bin, bio, eon, ion, neb, nib, nob, obe, obi, one.
	-3 letters: be, bi, bo, en, in, ne, no, oe, on.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-i-n-o"
	+1 letter: biogen, bizone, bonier, bonnie, bovine.
	+2 letters: bedouin, begonia, benison, benzoic, benzoin, bicorne, binocle, biogens, biogeny, bizones, bonfire, boniest, bonnier, boonies, bornite, bovines, bowline, bromine, brownie, combine, ebonies, ebonise, ebonite, ebonize, eobiont, hipbone, ignoble, lobefin, niobate, nobbier, obeying, pinbone.
	+3 letters: airborne, baritone, baronies, becoming, bedouins, bedsonia, begonias, behoving, benisons, benzoins, betonies, biconvex, bicornes, binocles, bioclean, biogenic, bobbinet, bogeying, bohemian, bombesin, bonefish, bonfires, bonhomie, boniface, boniness, bonitoes, bonniest, bonspiel, bornites, botanies, botanise, botanize, bouncier, bountied, bounties, bovinely, boweling, bowering, bowlines, boxiness, brionies, bromelin, bromines, bronzier, brownier, brownies, bryonies, cenobite, chinbone, coinable, combined, combiner, combines, debonair, deboning, ebonised, ebonises, ebonites, ebonized, ebonizes, elbowing, embowing, enrobing, eobionts, fishbone, hipbones, ibogaine, icebound, imbolden, intombed, joinable, knobbier, knoblike, lobefins, lobeline, neighbor, niobates, nobbiest, nobelium, nobodies, nonbeing, nubilose, obedient, obeisant, obtained, obtainer, ovenbird, pinbones, reboring, reobtain, ribboned, ringbone, searobin, shinbone, snobbier, sobering, steinbok, taborine, tailbone, unbodied, unilobed, wishbone, woodbine, zabaione.
	+4 letters: abiogenic, abjection, abominate, aborigine, aitchbone, anaerobic, anybodies, arabinose, balconied, balconies, bandolier, barbitone, baritones, bastioned, beaconing, beckoning, becomings, bedsoniae, bedsonias, befogging, befooling, befouling, beholding, behooving, behowling, bellowing, belonging, bemoaning, bemocking, benthonic, bentonite, benzenoid, besmoking, besnowing, besotting, bestowing, beworming, biconcave, bijection, biogenies, biogenous, bionomies, bioregion, biosensor, bisection, bisontine, bloodline, bluepoint, bobbinets, bohemians, bombazine, bombesins, bombinate, bonhomies, bonifaces, bonneting, bonspiels, boogeying, boogieing, bordering, bossiness, botanised, botanises, botanized, botanizes, bothering, bounciest, bowelling, boyfriend, brimstone, brokering, bromelain, bromelins, brominate, bronziest, browniest, carbonize, cenobites, cenobitic, chinbones, cobaltine, coenobite, colubrine, columbine, combiners, concubine, conscribe, corbeling, demobbing, desorbing, ebonising, ebonizing, embodying, embosking, embossing, embryonic, englobing, ennobling, entombing, enwombing, fishbones, forbidden, forebrain, hidebound, hobnailed, ibogaines, ibuprofen, ignorable, imboldens, imbrowned, inbounded, insoluble, ionizable, isobutane, knobbiest, knobblier, lobelines, merbromin, neighbors, neighbour, nobeliums, nonbeings, nonbelief, nonbodies, nonedible, nonmobile, nonviable, obedience, obeisance, obelising, obelizing, objecting, objection, obscenity, observing, obsessing, obsession, obstinate, obtainers, obtesting, obverting, omnibuses, outbidden, ovenbirds, rebellion, rebodying, reboiling, rebooking, rebooting, recombine, recombing, reobtains, reprobing, resorbing, ringbones, sanbenito, searobins, shinbones, shipborne, snobbiest, soilborne, steinboks, subjoined, subregion, taborines, tailbones, thighbone, tinderbox, vibriones, wishbones, woodbines, yohimbine, zabaiones.
	+5 letters: aberration, abiogenist, abjections, abnegation, abominable, abominated, abominates, aborigines, abreaction, abstention, actionable, aitchbones, ambitioned, antibioses, antibodies, arabinoses, bandoliers, barbitones, bayoneting, beblooding, becloaking, beclogging, beclothing, beclouding, beclowning, becomingly, becrowding, beglooming, begroaning, beknotting, belaboring, belongings, bentonites, bentonitic, benzocaine, beribboned, bescouring, beshouting, besoothing, bespousing, bestrowing, bethorning, betokening, betrothing, bevomiting, beworrying, bidonville, bijections, biocenoses, biocenosis, biogeneses, biogenesis, biogenetic, bioregions, bioscience, biosensors, birthstone, bisections, blazonries, bloodiness, bloodlines, bluepoints, bolstering, bombazines, bombinated, bombinates, bonefishes, boninesses, bookbinder, borderline, boringness, boundaries, bounderish, bovinities, boxinesses, boyfriends, boyishness, brainpower, brimstones, broadening, broidering, brokerings, bromelains, brominated, brominates, bronchiole, broodiness, brothering, brownfield, buoyancies, burgeoning, byssinoses, carabinero, carbonized, carbonizes, clobbering, cobaltines, cobwebbing, coenobites, cognizable, columbines, combinable, concubines, conscribed, conscribes, contribute, corbelings, corbelling, counterbid, debonairly, debouching, deorbiting, disobeying, ebullition, embargoing, embodiment, embonpoint, embosoming, emboweling, embowering, embroiling, embrowning, endobiotic, euglobulin, exhibition, exorbitant, fibrinogen, forbearing, foreboding, forebrains, geobotanic, hebetation, hemoglobin, hibernator, ibuprofens, iceboating, imboldened, imbowering, inexorable, inexorably, inoperable, insobriety, insociable, insolubles, insolvable, inviolable, isobutanes, knobbliest, knobkerrie, liberation, linerboard, lobstering, merbromins, mindblower, morbidness, naboberies, nebulosity, negotiable, neighbored, neighborly, neighbours, neoliberal, nobilities, nonbearing, nonbeliefs, nonbetting, noncabinet, noticeable, noticeably, notifiable, obediences, obediently, obeisances, obeisantly, objections, obnubilate, obsessions, obsoleting, obtainable, obtainment, omnibusses, ostensible, ostensibly, outbeaming, outbegging, overbaking, overbidden, overbuying, panbroiled, preboiling, prebooking, probenecid, proverbing, rebellions, reblooming, reboarding, rebottling, rebounding, recombined, recombines, redoubling, reobtained, ribbonlike, sanbenitos, slobbering, snobberies, snowmobile, soberizing, subjection, submersion, suboceanic, subregions, subreption, subroutine, subsection, subvention, subversion, tambourine, tenebrious, thighbones, trabeation, ubiquinone, unbecoming, unbloodied, uncombined, unsociable, vibraphone, wobbliness, xenobiotic, xenophobia, xenophobic, yohimbines, zabaglione.
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