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Definition: PROMETHEAN |
PROMETHEANAdjective1. Having a life-giving quality; inspiring. 2. Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus. Noun1. A kind of lucifer match. 2. An apparatus for automatic ignition. |
Date "PROMETHEAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Promethean Capable of producing fire; pertaining to Prometheus (q.v.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Life | Vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified,. Verb: viable, zoetic; Promethean. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PROMETHEAN |
| Specialty definitions using "PROMETHEAN": Panace'a, Promethean Fire, Promethean Unguent. (references) |
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| "PROMETHEAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PROMETHEAN" is used about 4 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PROMETHEAN": promethean fire. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
crusade promethean | 21 |
promethean | 9 |
partner promethean | 3 |
capital promethean | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PROMETHEAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прометеевски огън (promethean fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | prometheusi, titáni, gigászi (gigantean, gigantesque, gigantic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ometheanpray o fogo de prometeu (promethean fire). (various references) prometeic. (various references) прометеев. (various references) prometejska vatra (promethean fire). (various references) prometeusljuset (promethean fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PROMETHEAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: promethian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: treponema. | |
-2 letters: earphone, earthmen, ephorate, metaphor, permeant. | |
-3 letters: another, apothem, earthen, haptene, hearten, heptane, manrope, menorah, methane, metopae, operant, operate, panther, phaeton, phantom, phenate, phonate, phoneme, phorate, potheen, preheat, prename, pronate, protean, tempera, teraohm, theorem, thereon, thermae, tonearm. | |
-4 letters: aether, ampere, anthem, anther, arpent, atoner, emoter, enamor, enrapt, entera, entrap, ethane, hamper, hapten, hareem. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: hymenoptera, metanephroi, metanephros. | |
+2 letters: hymenopteran. | |
+3 letters: hymenopterans, magnetosphere, pneumatophore, rapprochement. | |
+4 letters: hyperemotional, magnetospheres, magnetospheric, pneumatophores, pneumothoraces, pneumothoraxes, rapprochements. | |
+5 letters: anthropometries, cinematographer, immunotherapies, mechanoreceptor. | |
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