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Date "PHRYNE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Phryne (2 syl.). A courtesan or Athenian hetæra. She acquired so much wealth by her beauty that she offered to rebuild the walls of Thebes if she might put on them this inscription: "Alexander destroyed them, but Phryne the hetæra rebuilt them." The Cnidian Venus of Praxiteles was taken from this courtesan. Apelles' picture of Venus Rising from the Sea was partly from his wife Campaspe, and partly from Phryne, who entered the sea with dishevelled hair as a model. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PHRYNE |
| Specialty definitions using "PHRYNE": Pancaste. (references) |
| 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 |
phryne | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: henry, hyper. | |
-2 letters: hern, hype, prey, pyre. | |
-3 letters: ern, hen, hep, her, hey, hyp, peh, pen, per, pry, pye, rep, rye, yeh, yen, yep. | |
-4 letters: eh, en, er, he, ne, pe, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: hyperon, phrensy. | |
+2 letters: hyperons. | |
+3 letters: cyphering, gynophore, hyperfine, hyperlink, hyperpnea, pentarchy, pharynges, pharynxes, pyrethrin, syphering. | |
+4 letters: endomorphy, granophyre, gynophores, hydrophane, hydrophone, hydroplane, hyperlinks, hypermania, hypermanic, hyperplane, hyperpneas, hyperpneic, hypersonic, hypertense, hypertonia, hypertonic, hypocenter, keypuncher, nephrology, neuropathy, overhyping, parenchyma, pennyworth, periphyton, pharyngeal, phenocryst, phrenology, phrensying, polyhedron, pyrethrins, renography, threepenny, venography. | |
+5 letters: enteropathy, ethnography, granophyres, handyperson, heterophony, hydrophanes, hydrophones, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, hymenoptera, hyperborean, hypercapnia, hypercapnic, hyperextend, hyperimmune, hyperlinked, hypermanias, hypermnesia, hypermnesic, hypermodern, hyperplanes, hypersaline, hypersthene, hypertonias, hypocenters, hypocentral, keypunchers, lycanthrope, nephrectomy, nephropathy, parenchymal, parenchymas, pennyworths, perionychia, periphytons, phalanstery, phenocrysts, platyrrhine, polyhedrons, preachingly, prophesying, pyrotechnic, rehypnotize, retinopathy, scenography, stenography, stereophony, superhyping, tryptophane. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 52 59 4E 45 |
| 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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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .... .-. -.--. -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001000 01010010 01011001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P H R Y N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0048 0052 0059 004E 0045 |
| 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)504252594839 |
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