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Definition: PLUTUS |
PLUTUSNoun1. The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit. |
Date "PLUTUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Plutus \Plu"tus\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (references) |
"PLUTUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: Lotus, Plates, Pluto. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Plutus Rich as Plutus. In Greek mythology Plutos is the god of riches. Plutus and Pluto are widely different. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology, Plutus ("wealth") was a son of Demeter and Iasion and was the personification of wealth. He was blinded by Zeus so that he would be able to dispense his gifts without prejudice. His associated with Hades and often portrayed with a cornucopia.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Plutus."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wealth | Rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PLUTUS |
| Specialty definitions using "PLUTUS": Mammon of Unrighteousness. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He sacrifices not to Ceres and the Terrestrial Jove, but to the infernal Plutus rather |
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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 |
plutus | 3 |
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| Words rhyming with "PLUTUS" (pronounced 'Plu"tus'): Afflatus, Ailantus, Alto-stratus, Amotus, Asphaltus, Attritus, Benedictus, Boletus, Cactus, Cognatus, Conatus, Conspectus, Cumu-cirro-stratus, Delectus, fetus, ictus, Leptus, Literatus, Mallotus, meatus, Notus, Pectus, Pericarditus, Productus, Prospectus, Pruritus, Quietus, rectus, rictus, Salaeratus, Sanctus, Scorbutus, singultus, Situs, status, Subsultus, tinnitus, Vermetus, Victus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-p-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: lupus. | |
-2 letters: lust, plus, puls, puts, sulu, tups, ulus. | |
-3 letters: pul, pus, put, sup, tup, ulu, ups, uts. | |
-4 letters: up, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-p-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: pluteus, pustule. | |
+2 letters: outpulls, patulous, pullouts, pustular, pustuled, pustules. | |
+3 letters: bullpouts, pustulant, sculpture, sepulture. | |
+4 letters: eucalyptus, plutoniums, pullulates, pustulants, pustulated, quintuples, sculptural, sculptured, sculptures, sepultures, teacupfuls, teacupsful, voluptuous. | |
+5 letters: apicultures, bumptiously, duplicitous, impetuously, multicampus, multiparous, punctilious, pustulation, quadruplets, quintuplets, rapturously, sculpturing, submultiple, sumptuously, superfluity, supersleuth, supersubtle, unspiritual. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4C 55 54 55 53 |
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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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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-.. ..- - ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001100 01010101 01010100 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P L U T U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004C 0055 0054 0055 0053 |
| 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)504655545553 |
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