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Date "SARDANAPALUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sardanapalus King of Nineveh and Assyria, noted for his luxury and voluptuousness. His effeminacy induced Arbaces, the Mede, to conspire against him. Myrra, an Ionian slave, and his favourite concubine, roused him from his lethargy, and induced him to appear at the head of his armies. He won three successive battles, but being then defeated, was induced by Myrra to place himself on a funeral pile, which she herself set fire to, and then jumping into the flames, perished with her beloved master. (Died B.C. 817.) (Byron: Sardanapalus.) A Sardanapalus. Any luxurious, extravagant, self-willed tyrant. (See above. Sardanapalus of China. Cheo-tsin, who shut himself and his queen in his palace, and set fire to the building, that he might not fall into the hands of Woo-wong, who founded the dynasty of Tchow (B.C. 1154-1122). It was cheo-tsin who invented the chopsticks. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: SARDANAPALUS |
| Specialty definitions using "SARDANAPALUS": Arbaces ♦ Beleses ♦ Calah ♦ Myrra ♦ Rome was not Built in a Day ♦ Seremenes. (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 |
death sardanapalus | 4 |
death delacroix sardanapalus | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "SARDANAPALUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | sardanápalo. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-d-l-n-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-4 letters: lupanars, panduras, sandspur, sardanas. | |
-5 letters: landaus, lupanar, lurdans, panadas, pandura, pulsars, puranas, radulas, ranulas, sandals, sardana, suldans, uplands. | |
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