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"STYLITES" is a plural of: stylite. |
Date "STYLITES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Stylites or Pillar Saints. By far the most celebrated are Simeon the Stylite of Syria, and Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople. Simeon spent thirty-seven years on different pillars, each loftier and narrower than the preceding. The last was sixty-six feet high. He died in 460, aged seventy-two. Daniel lived thirty-three years on a pillar, and was not unfrequently nearly blown from it by the storms from Thrace. He died in 494. Tennyson has a poem on Simeon Stylites. "I, Simeon of the Pillar by surname. Stylites among men- I, Simeon, The watcher on the column till the end." Tennyson. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Seclusion Exclusion | Recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret, anchorite; Simon Stylites; troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic; wastrel, foundling, wilding. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STYLITES |
| Specialty definitions using "STYLITES": Pillar Saints. (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 |
simeon st stylites | 2 |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STYLITES" (pronounced sti'lī"ts) |
| 4 | -l ī" t s | delights, flights, lights, slights. |
| 3 | -ī" t s | bites, bytes, cites, excites, fights, heights, ignites, incites, invites, kites, knights, mites, nights, nonwhites, recites, reunites, rewrites, rights, rites, sights, sites, tights, unites, whites, Wrights, writes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-s-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stylets, stylise, stylist, stylite, testily. | |
-2 letters: islets, istles, sliest, slyest, stiles, stilts, styles, stylet, testis, titles. | |
-3 letters: isles, islet, istle, lists, lyses, lysis, setts, silts, silty, sites, slits, stets, sties, stile, stilt, styes, style, styli, sylis, tests, testy, tiles, tilts, title, yetis, yetts. | |
-4 letters: isle, leis, less, lest, lets, leys, lies, list, lite, lits. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-s-s-t-t-y" | |
+3 letters: insistently, multisystem, polytheists. | |
+4 letters: consistently, crystallites, dictyosteles, essentiality, etymologists, persistently, streptolysin, thriftlessly. | |
+5 letters: assortatively, cholecystitis, distastefully, osteomyelitis, resistibility, sententiously, storytellings, streptolysins, substantively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 59 4C 49 54 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - -.--. .-.. .. - . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01011001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T Y L I T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0059 004C 0049 0054 0045 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5354594643543953 |
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