Priam

Definition: Priam

Priam

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) the last king of Troy; father of Hector and Paris and Cassandra.

"Priam" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be redeemed".

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

"Priam" is a common misspelling or typo for: pram, prim, primal, prime, primo, primp, prism, proem.

Domain	Definition
Literature	Priam King of Troy when that city was sacked by the allied Greeks. His wife's name was Hecuba; she was the mother of nineteen children, the eldest of whom was Hector. When the gates of Troy were thrown open by the Greeks concealed in the Wooden Horse, Pyrrhos, the son of Achilles, slew the aged Priam. (See Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Æneid.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Priamos) was king of Troy during the Trojan War and son of Laomedon. Priam had a number of wives (his first was Arisbe); his chief wife, Hecuba, bore him fifty children, including Creusa, Ilione, Deiphobus, Hector, Helenus, Antiphus, Polites, Laodice, Polydorus, Paris and Cassandra. Another wife, Laothoe, was the mother of Lycaon. He also fathered Cebriones with a slave. Priam was originally called Podarge and he kept himself from being killed by Heracles by giving him a golden veil embroidered by his sister, Hesione. After this, Podarge changed his name to Priam, meaning "ransomed".

Polydorus, Priam's youngest son, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War. The fighting was getting vicious and Priam was frightened for the child's safety. After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself. Hecuba eventually avenged her son.

When Hector was killed by Achilles, Priam walked into the Greek encampment and begged for Hector's body so he could be buried. Achilles agreed, though he had already dragged the body around Troy three times, and Priam was eventually sacrificed to Zeus by Neoptolemus, Achilles' son.

Crosswords: Priam

Specialty definitions using "Priam": Abram-colour, Alexandra ♦ Cressida ♦ Grangousier ♦ Hecuba. (references)

Etymologies containing "Priam": Troilus. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	King Priam (1985)
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Domain	Title
Books	A Perfect Day for Dying (A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery) (reference) Dying Well: A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery (Lady Margaret Priam Series) (reference) Going Out in Style: A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery (reference) Mourning Gloria: A Lady Margaret Priam Mystery (reference) Stunning Way to Die (Lady Priam, No 1) (reference) (more book examples)
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"Priam" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Priam" is used about 23 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%	23	72,767

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Language		Translations for "Priam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		� ρίαμοσ. (various references)

Pig Latin		iampray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: prima.
	Words within the letters "a-i-m-p-r"
	-1 letter: amir, mair, pair, pima, pram, prim, rami, ramp.
	-2 letters: aim, air, ami, amp, arm, imp, map, mar, mir, pam, par, pia, ram, rap, ria, rim, rip.
	-3 letters: ai, am, ar, ma, mi, pa, pi.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-m-p-r"
	+1 letter: armpit, impair, impark, impart, primal, primas.
	+2 letters: armpits, campier, crampit, emporia, epigram, gripman, impairs, impaler, imparks, imparts, impearl, imperia, impresa, lempira, meropia, mispart, morphia, palmier, primacy, primage, primary, primate, primula, pyramid, rampike, ramping, rampion, vampire.
	+3 letters: aphorism, apterium, arapaima, atropism, campfire, camphire, copremia, cramping, crampits, epigrams, firedamp, impacter, impactor, impaired, impairer, impalers, imparity, imparked, imparted, imparter, impearls, imperial, impresas, lampyrid, lempiras, mariposa, marsupia, marzipan, meropias, minipark, misparse, misparts, morphias, myriapod, napiform, paradigm, parecism, pastrami, pastromi, pearmain, picloram, picogram, plumeria, preadmit, priapism, primages, primatal, primates, primeval, primulas, proclaim, proemial, prolamin, prosaism, protamin, proximal, puparium, pyramids, rampikes, rampions, rifampin, samphire, sapremia, sapremic, seraphim, swampier, teraphim, tramping, trampish, umpirage, vampires, vampiric.
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