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Definitions: Epos |
EposNoun1. A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme. 2. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Epos \Ep"os\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EPOS | English | Electronic point-of-sale(equipment) | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EposSynonyms: epic (n), epic poem (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Epos |
| Non-English Usage: "Epos" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (Epos), Czech (epic), Dutch (epic poem), German (epic, Epos), Latin (epic poem), Serbo-Croatian (epos), Swedish (epic, Epos). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Epos" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 65.00% of the time. "Epos" is used about 20 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) | 65% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (plural) | 35% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "epos"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Epos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شعر ملحمي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Епос. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Epická Báseò (epopee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | PVE, point de vente électronique, Épopée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Epos (epic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ׂליל". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Eposz (epic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | EPOS (European Pool of Studies(and Analyses)), Epopea (epic, epic poem, epopee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eposay Relativo A Época. (various references) Epopee (epic, epopee). (various references) Эпос. (various references) epos. (various references) Epopeya (saga). (various references) Epos (epic). (various references) Manzum Hikâye, Destan (epic, epopee, saga). (various references) Епічна Поема, Епос. (various references) thiên sử thi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "epos": eposes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "epos": pepos, repos. (additional references) | |
Words containing "epos": deposal, deposals, depose, deposed, deposer, deposers, deposes, deposing, deposit, depositaries, depositary, deposited, depositing, deposition, depositional, depositions, depositor, depositories, depositors, depository, deposits, electrodeposit, electrodeposited, electrodepositing, electrodeposition, electrodepositions, electrodeposits, gatepost, gateposts, guidepost, guideposts, milepost, mileposts, nondeposition, nondepositions, postdepositional, preposition, prepositional, prepositionally, prepositions, prepositive, prepositively, prepossess, prepossessed, prepossesses, prepossessing, prepossession, prepossessions, preposterous, preposterously, preposterousness. (additional references) | |
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"Epos" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apos, cepos, eaos, ebos, ebps, Ecos, edos, eeoc, eeos, efos, Efps, ehos, ekos, elos, enoz, eoc, eop, eops, Eosg, eous, eoz, ephos, epiq, epis, epls, epns, epo, epoc, Epoca, epock, epod, epoh, epois, epon, epops, epose, Eposs, epot, epow, epox, epoy, eppes, Eppur, eps, esos, Etps, evos, Evps, eyots, ipos, peoz, pepos, repos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "epos" (pronounced 'Ep"os'): Chaos, Eos, Logos, Naos, Pronaos. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: opes, peso, pose. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: oes, ope, ops, ose, pes, sop. | |
-2 letters: es, oe, op, os, pe, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: copes, copse, dopes, estop, expos, hopes, lopes, mopes, opens, paseo, peons, pepos, pesos, pesto, poems, poesy, poets, poise, pokes, poles, pomes, pones, popes, pores, posed, poser, poses, posse, poxes, prose, psoae, repos, ropes, scope, sepoy, slope, spode, spoke, spore, stope, topes. | |
+2 letters: appose, aslope, bebops, copens, copers, copies, copses, corpse, coupes, depose, depots, despot, dopers, elopes, ephods, ephors, epochs, epodes, eposes, estops, expose, gospel, gropes, hopers, impose, joseph, kopeks, kopjes, lopers, loupes, mopeds, mopers, myopes, netops, operas, opines, oppose, opuses, osprey, ouphes, paeons, pareos, paseos, pedros, pekoes, pengos, peones, peplos, person, pestos, phones, pilose, pogeys, pogies, poised, poiser, poises, pokers, pokeys, pokies, poleis, polers, polies, ponces, ponies, pontes, pooves, popsie, porose, posers, poseur, posher, posies, posses, posset, posted, poster, potsie, powers, presto, probes, proems, proles, prosed, proser, proses, proves, pseudo, ptoses, pyoses, rebops, repose, repots, repros, respot, ropers, sapote, scoped, scopes, sepoys, sexpot, shoppe, sloped, sloper, slopes, soaped, soaper, sopite, sopped, souped, speedo, splore, spodes, spoked, spoken, spokes, sponge, spored, spores, spouse, stoped, stoper, stopes, tempos, tepoys, topees, topers, tophes, tropes, uprose. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 70 6F 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. --- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110000 01101111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E p o s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0070 006F 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39828185 |
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