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Definition: PHILOPENA |
PHILOPENANoun1. A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. |
Date "PHILOPENA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Etymology: Philopena \Phil`o*pe"na\, noun. [Probably corruption from German vielliebchen, Low German vielliebken, or Dutch veelliebken, philopena, literally, much loved; but influenced by Greek friend, and Latin poena penalty, from an idea that the gift was penalty of friendship or love.]. (references) |
Crosswords: PHILOPENA |
| English words defined with "PHILOPENA": Fillipeen. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "PHILOPENA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | φιλοποίνη. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilopenaphay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "PHILOPENA" (pronounced 'Phil`o*pe"na'): Abuna, Achatina, Alcanna, Alhenna, Alumna, Amphirhina, Amphisbaena, Angina, Anna, Anona, Antenna, arena, Avena, Avifauna, Banana, Becuna, BELLADONNA, Bellona, Carina, Casuarina, Catena, Cavatina, Concertina, Coquina, Cromorna, Curtana, Czarevna, Czarina, Damiana, DIANA, Echidna, Erythrina, Galena, Gehenna, Gena, Globigerina, Glucina, Hemina, henna, Hosanna, HYENA, iguana, Krishna, lacuna, Lena, Levana, Limacina, Linguatulina, Littorina, Luna. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-p" | |
-1 letter: aphelion, phelonia. | |
-2 letters: opaline, pinhole. | |
-3 letters: alpine, enhalo, eolian, happen, holpen, hopple, inhale, lippen, nappie, nipple, penial, phenol, phonal, pineal, pinole, poplin. | |
-4 letters: aleph, alien, aline, aloin, alone, anile, anole, appel, apple, elain, eloin, haole, helio, hippo, lapin, liane, nappe, nopal, olein, opine, paeon, palpi, panel, pelon, penal, pepla, phial, phone, piano, pilea, pipal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-p" | |
+3 letters: phenotypical. | |
+4 letters: cephalosporin, epiphenomenal, planographies. | |
+5 letters: cephalosporins, inapproachable, phenotypically, philanthropies, prosencephalic. | |
| 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. | |
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