SEMELE

Definition: SEMELE

SEMELE

Noun

1. A daughter of Cadmus, and by Zeus mother of Bacchus.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

Etymology: Semele \Sem"e*le\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: SEMELE

Specialty definitions using "SEMELE": Dionysos. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Semele

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Greek mythology, Semele (Roman equivalent: Stimula), daughter of Cadmus, was the mother of Dionysus (the Roman Bacchus by Zeus.

Zeus's wife, Hera, a jealous and vain goddess, discovered the affair while Semele was pregnant. Appearing as an old crone, Hera befriended Semele, who confided in her that her husband was actually Zeus. Hera pretended not to believe her, and planted seeds of doubt in Semele's mind. Curious, Semele demanded of Zeus that he reveal himself in all his glory as proof of his godhood. Though Zeus begged her not to ask this, she persisted and he agreed. Mortals, however, can not look upon a god without dying, and she perished. Zeus rescued the fetal Dionysus, however, by sewing him into his leg. A few months later, Dionysus was born. This leads to his being called "the twice-born".

The story formed the basis for the secular oratorio, Semele (1744), by George Frideric Handel

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Semele."

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Commercial Usage: SEMELE

Domain	Title
References	Semele Group Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Mount Semele (reference) SEMELE GROUP INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) SEMELE GROUP INC.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference) Stratford-Upon-Avon: Street by Street: Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick: Alveston, Cubbington, Haseley, Radford Semele, Shottery, Tiddington, wellesbo (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Handel - Semele / Burrowes, Kwella, Priday, D. Jones, Denley, Penrose, Rolfe Johnson, M. Davies, Lloyd, D. Thomas (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: SEMELE

"SEMELE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SEMELE" is used about 5 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%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: SEMELE

Country	Name
USA	Semele Group Inc.
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SEMELE

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
semele	11
semele zeus	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "SEMELE"

Words rhyming with "SEMELE" (pronounced 'Sem"e*le'): Arbitrable, boule, Bowable, Bracteole, Brandle, Bransle, Breakable, Breathable, Fertile, Flower-gentle, Fontanelle, Galletyle, Gazelle, Kettle, Lingle, Paigle, Painable, Palatable, Palpable, Paludicole, Palule, Panhandle, Panicle, Pantile, Pantofle, Papule, Parabole, Paragrele, Parallelable, Parcel-mele, Pardale, Pardonable, Parembole, Parentele, Partable, Partible, Participable, Participle, Particle, Passable, Passible, Pass-parole, Pastorale, Pasturable, Patentable, Patible, Patrole, Pawnable, Payable, Peaceable. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SEMELE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: melees.
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-m-s"
	-1 letter: melee.
	-2 letters: eels, elms, else, emes, lees, mels, seel, seem, seme.
	-3 letters: eel, elm, els, eme, ems, lee, mel, see, sel.
	-4 letters: el, em, es, me.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-m-s"
	+1 letter: lexemes.
	+2 letters: elements, ensemble, gleesome, resemble, seemlier.
	+3 letters: cameleers, embezzles, employees, enamelers, ensembles, helpmeets, menseless, muleteers, omelettes, resembled, resembles, resmelted, seemliest, selectmen, telomeres, wheelsmen.
	+4 letters: belemnites, bumblebees, clemencies, demoiselle, elementals, elopements, embezzlers, emblements, ephemerals, femaleness, genteelism, lamenesses, madeleines, malenesses, meddlesome, methylenes, mettlesome, misbelieve, nettlesome, reassemble, remediless, seemliness, semiweekly, settlement, smelteries, steelmaker, telemeters, themselves, unseemlier.
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