Parnassus

Definition: Parnassus

Parnassus

Noun

1. A mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry; "Liakoura is the modern name of Mount Parnassus".

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

Etymology: Parnassus \Par*nas"sus\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Parnassus

Synonyms: Liakoura (n), Mount Parnassus (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Parnassus

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poetry	Noun: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Parnassus

English words defined with "Parnassus": Castalian ♦ Delphi ♦ fringed grass of Parnassus ♦ Grass of Parnassus ♦ Mount Parnassus ♦ Parnassian ♦ To climb Parnassus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Parnassus": Biceps Parnassus ♦ Castaly, Cooper's Hill ♦ Liakura, lyre ♦ Parnassos ♦ Solon of Parnassus. (references)

Etymologies containing "Parnassus": Gradus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Parnassus" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (Parnassus).

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Modern Usage: Parnassus

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Parnassus (2003)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Parnassus

Domain	Title
Books	Amazons and Professionals: Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) (reference) Christ on Parnassus (reference) Parnassus on Wheels (reference) Thomson Financial Mutual Fund Report : PARNX: Parnassus Fund [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany: Milkmaids on Parnassus (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Parnassus

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox: I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! Farquharson Harris M
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Parnassus

"Parnassus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Parnassus" is used about 3 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%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Parnassus

Expressions using "Parnassus": fringed grass of Parnassus ♦ Grass of Parnassus ♦ Mount Parnassus ♦ To climb Parnassus. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Parnassus": grass-of-Parnassus.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Parnassus

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
parnassus	21
funds parnassus	6
fund parnassus	6
investment parnassus	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Parnassus

Language		Translations for "Parnassus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		поетите изобщо, поезия (minstrelsy, poesy, poetry, song, strain, verse), парнас. (various references)

Czech		parnas. (various references)

Dutch		Parnassus. (various references)

Esperanto		Parnaso. (various references)

French		fromagella du mont Parnasse (fromagella Parnassus cheese). (various references)

Greek		παρνασσόσ. (various references)

Pig Latin		arnassuspay

Portuguese		parnasiano. (various references)

Romanian		poezie (beauty, charm, line, piece of poetry, poem, poesy, poetry, rep, rhyme, verse), poeţi, centru de activitate poeticã. (various references)

Russian		парнас. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		parnas. (various references)

Spanish		parnaso. (various references)

Swedish		parnass. (various references)

Turkish		parnas dağı, güzel sanatlar tanrıçalarının dağı. (various references)

Ukranian		поезія (minstrelsy, poesy, poetry, verse), парнас. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Parnassus

Misspellings
	"Parnassus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pangasius, parnassi, Parnassos, Parnassum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Parnassus"

Words rhyming with "Parnassus" (pronounced 'Par*nas"sus'): Balanoglossus, Byssus, Casus, Census, Colossus, Consensus, Croesus, Discursus, Excursus, Hyoglossus, Hypotarsus, Jesus, metatarsus, Molossus, Narcissus, Prolapsus, rhesus, Tarsometatarsus, tarsus, Thyrsus, Tibiotarsus, Ursus, Versus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Parnassus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-n-p-r-s-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: puranas, sansars, surpass.
	-3 letters: passus, purana, ruanas, sansar, sarans, saunas, spurns.
	-4 letters: auras, paras, praus, punas, rasps, ruana, saran, sauna, snaps, spans, spars, spurn, spurs, supra, suras.
	-5 letters: anas, ansa, anus, asps, aura, naps, pans, para, pars, pass, prau, puna, puns, purs, puss, raps, rasp, runs, sans, saps, sass, snap, span, spar, spas, spun, spur, suns, sups, sura, suss, upas, urns, ursa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-n-p-r-s-s-s-u"
	+4 letters: rapaciousness, supersalesman, unsurpassable.
	+5 letters: rampageousness.
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