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Thalia

Definitions: Thalia

Thalia

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.

2. (Greek mythology) one of the three Graces.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Thalia" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "blossom".

Date "Thalia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Etymology: Thalia \Tha*li"a\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression Qa`leia, originally, blooming, luxuriant, akin to qa`llein to be luxuriant.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Thalia

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

THALIA

EnglishThinking and Linking Intelligent AppliancesN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Thalia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

  1. In Greek mythology, Thalia ("good cheer") was the muse of comedy and pastoral poetry. She was a rural goddess with the attributes of a comic mask and a shepherd's crook.
  2. The name of one of the Charites
  3. A nymph, with Zeus or Hephaestus, the mother of the Palici (may be the same as #1 or #2 above)

Thalia is the artistic name of a famous Mexican Diva. She starred in Televisa's soap operas like Maria Mercedes, Maria La Del Barrio and Marimar. She also starred in Mambo Cafe, a Hollywood production with Paul Rodriguez as her father. She played a Puerto Rican woman there.

Thalia lives in New York, where she married Sony Music President Tommy Mottola. Her two sisters, Laura Zapata and an unidentified one, were kidnapped recently but Zapata was found alive by Mexican police. Her other sister was also released alive.

See also: Gloria Trevi

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

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Synonyms within Context: Thalia

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

The Drama

Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Thalia

English words defined with "Thalia": Thalian. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Thalia": GRACESROOT EDIBLE-COOKEDTHALIA GENICULATA. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Thalia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (Thalia), Latin (Swamp lily).

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Modern Usage: Thalia

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Thilia Thalia (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Thalia

DomainTitle

Books

  • H.C. Andersen og Thalia : fantasiens teater = H.C. Andersen and Thalia : love's labours lost? (reference)

  • Hamburger Thalia Theater, Boy Gobert (reference)

  • Thalia 2003 Calendar (reference)

  • Thalia Brown and the Blue Bug (reference)

  • Thalia tentissä : puheenvuoroja tamperelaisesta teatterista (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Thalia

Illustrations:
Thalia

More images...

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Photo Album: Thalia

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Thalia Theatre Talya teh'ater : glants falle ereffnung mit ayn riesen ensambel fon ershte klasse kinstler und kilnstlerinen.Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Aileen Pringle, at the Thalia.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Thalia

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Thalia

"Thalia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thalia" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%7133,076

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Thalia

The following table summarizes the usage of "Thalia" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ThaliaFirst name Female2,0002,325
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Thalia

Expression using "Thalia": melpomene and Thalia. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thalia

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

thalia

6,669

lyrics thalia

386

thalia desnuda

253

fat joe thalia

236

picture thalia

207

thalia nude

171

fotos de thalia

115

pic thalia

92

fotos thalia

91

thalia video

78

photo thalia

72

actricitas desnuda thalia

70

thalia wallpaper

66

sodi thalia

61

fat feat joe thalia

56

fat joe lyrics thalia

51

fat featuring joe thalia

49

naked thalia

47

de denuda fotos thalia

45

cogiendo thalia

36
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Thalia

Language Translations for "Thalia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

Θάλεια. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Thalia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aliathay

   

Portuguese

  

Tália. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ТалиÑ. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

talija. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Thalia"

Words rhyming with "Thalia" (pronounced 'Tha*li"a'): Dulia, Hyperdulia. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Thalia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hiatal.

Words within the letters "a-a-h-i-l-t"

-1 letter: laith, lathi.

-2 letters: alit, hail, halt, hila, hilt, lath, lati, tail, tala, tali.

-3 letters: aah, aal, aha, ail, ait, ala, alt, hat, hit, lat, lit, til.

-4 letters: aa, ah, ai, al, at, ha, hi, it, la, li, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-i-l-t"
 

+1 letter: calathi, thalami.

 

+2 letters: anthelia, habitual, halakist, halation, haptical, inhalant, taiglach, thalamic.

 

+3 letters: ailanthus, aliphatic, asphaltic, authorial, azimuthal, caliphate, chatelain, habitable, habitably, halakists, halations, inhalants, inhalator, leviathan, malachite, malathion, shavetail, thalassic, theriacal, trailhead.

 

+4 letters: alkahestic, alphabetic, altazimuth, annihilate, antiphonal, apothecial, arthralgia, arthralgic, asphalting, asphaltite, caliphates, charitable, charitably, chatelaine, chatelains, epitaphial, exhalation, exhilarate, habilitate, habitually, haustorial, hemiacetal, inhalation, inhalators, lanthanide, leviathans, malachites, malathions, ophthalmia, pathetical, phatically, plainchant, prothallia, shavetails, theatrical, trailheads, withdrawal.

 

+5 letters: aesthetical, ahistorical, ailanthuses, alphabeting, alphabetize, altazimuths, anacoluthic, annihilated, annihilates, annihilator, antheridial, anthropical, antialcohol, antiphonals, antiwhaling, aphetically, arthralgias, asphaltites, atheistical, autarchical, azimuthally, catechismal, catholicate, chaotically, chatelaines, epithalamia, epithalamic, exhalations, exhilarated, exhilarates, farthingale, habilitated, habilitates, hallucinate, hemiacetals, hypothalami, inhabitable, inhalations, intrathecal, lanthanides, matriarchal, metaethical, ophthalmias, patriarchal, plainchants, prothalamia, tarnishable, thalassemia, thalassemic, theatricals, thrasonical, washability, withdrawals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Thalia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 61 6C 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ....    .-    .-..    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0061 006C 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547467787567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Abbreviations
14. Acronyms
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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