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"XERXES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the ruler over heroes". |
Date "XERXES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Xerxes (2 syl.). A Greek way of writing the Persian Ksathra or Kshatra, a royal title assumed by Isfundear, son of Gushtasp, darawesh. (See Darius .) When Xerxes invaded Greece he constructed a pontoon bridge across the Dardanelles, which, being swept away by the force of the waves, so enraged the Persian despot that be "inflicted three hundred lashes on the rebellious sea, and cast chains of iron across it." This story is probably a Greek myth, founded on the peculiar construction of Xerxes' second bridge, which consisted of three hundred boats, lashed by iron chains to two ships serving as supporters. As for the scourging, without doubt it was given to the engineers and not to the waves. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The name Xerxes was also the name of an Armenian king, killed about 212 BC by Antiochus III the Great and of a son of Mithradates the Great of Pontus.
"Xerxes" is also the name of an opera by Handel
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Xerxes."
Crosswords: XERXES |
| Specialty definitions using "XERXES": Ahasuerus, Atossa ♦ Come and take Them ♦ Wooden Wall ♦ Xerxes' Tears. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "XERXES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (xerxes). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Xerxes (1988) | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And if we may not suppose men ever to have been in the state of nature, because we hear not much of them in such a state, we may as well suppose the armies of Salmanasser or Xerxes were never children, because we hear little of them, till they were men, and imbodied in armies. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| "XERXES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.51% of the time. "XERXES" is used about 185 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) | 53.51% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Noun (plural) | 41.62% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.86% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 185 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "XERXES": Xerxes I ♦ Xerxes the Great. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
xerxes | 106 |
king xerxes | 9 |
haendel xerxes | 8 |
xerxes tank | 7 |
fiberglass tank xerxes | 5 |
frp tank xerxes | 4 |
fiberglass storage tank underground xerxes | 4 |
picture xerxes | 4 |
xerxes handel | 3 |
xerxes corporation | 3 |
xerxes i | 2 |
corp xerxes | 2 |
king persian xerxes | 2 |
themistocles xerxes | 2 |
lavey xerxes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "XERXES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Perský Král. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύέρξησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Xerxész. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erxesxay xerxes. (various references) Ксеркс. (various references) kserks. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-s-x-x" | |
-1 letter: rexes. | |
-2 letters: exes, rees, seer, sere. | |
-3 letters: ere, ers, ree, res, rex, see, ser, sex. | |
-4 letters: er, es, ex, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-s-x-x" | |
+1 letter: xeroxes. | |
+5 letters: executrixes. | |
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