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Definition: Golem |
GolemNoun1. (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means. 2. A mechanism that can move automatically. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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A golem, in medieval folklore, is an animated being made from clay or stone. It is derived from Hebrew mythology and is said to contain a scroll with magic or religious words that keep it animated. Its existence was a mixed blessing. Although not overly intelligent, a golem could be made to perform simple tasks over and over forever. The problem was getting him to stop. The most famous tale involves the golem created by the 16th century rabbi Judah Low ben Bezulel of Prague, and was the basis for Gustav Meyrink's 1915 novel Der Golem.
A more recent tale involving golems of this type is Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
In the Discworld series, Golems are considered to be a sub-type of troll.
The word golem is used in the Bible (Psalms 139:16) and in Talmudic literature to refer to an embryonic or incomplete substance. It comes from the word gelem, which means raw material.
A modern version of the old legends is the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek.
In modern times Golems have been heavily referenced by role-playing games, and have expanded the definition from clay and stone, to iron, wood, rope, straw, and flesh amongst other substances.
Golem has been chosen as the name of an ambitious project on robot evolution.
External Links
- http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/golem/backgroundgolem.html
- http://www.jewishmag.com/26mag/golem/golem.htm
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Golem."
Synonyms: GolemSynonyms: automaton (n), robot (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Golem |
| Non-English Usage: "Golem" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (huge). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dreht Euch nicht um - der Golem geht rum (1971) Le Golem (1967) Der Golem und die Tänzerin (1917) The Golem (1995) Le jardin pétrifié Golem (1993) | |
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| "Golem" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Golem" is used about 12 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 (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
golem | 174 | golem lost | 4 |
award golem movie mtv | 8 | jewish golem | 3 |
golem iron | 7 | golem mendy | 3 |
golem mtv | 7 | golem shield | 3 |
golem picture | 6 | acceptance golem speech | 3 |
golem lord ring | 6 | golem lab | 3 |
award golem mtv | 6 | el golem | 3 |
golem jewish legend | 5 | golem neverwinter night shield | 3 |
golem of prague | 5 | golem sand | 2 |
golem little | 5 | der golem | 2 |
the golem legend | 5 | craft golem star | 2 |
golem neue oder | 4 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "golem"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convert, convolution, convolve, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goalkeeper, goatability, go-cart, goggles, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, Gordon, gorgeous, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, prime time, traffic light). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゴーレム. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olemgay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "golem": golems. (additional references) | |
Words containing "golem": avgolemono, avgolemonos. (additional references) | |
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"Golem" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galam, gelen, glem, Glemm, gloem, goel, goiem, gokem, golau, Gole, golee, Golema, golen, goler, goli, Golke, golle, golom, Golomb, golum, Golzen, Gomel, Goolab, goole, gorem, Gozem, gozle, Guelma, Gugliemo, Gulam, logem, olem, tolem, Ugolin, volem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "golem" (pronounced gō"lum) |
| 4 | -ō" l u m | Solum. |
| 3 | -l u m | alum, antebellum, asylum, bedlam, pablum, pendulum, phylum, problem, column, curriculum, diverticulum, emblem, exemplum, flagellum, fullam, hoodlum, slalom, solemn, tantalum. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: glom, loge, mole, ogle. | |
-2 letters: ego, elm, gel, gem, leg, log, meg, mel, mog, mol, ole. | |
-3 letters: el, em, go, lo, me, mo, oe, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: golems. | |
+2 letters: begloom, glomera, glommed, gloomed, gomeral, gomerel, gomeril, legroom, mongrel, moulage, semilog. | |
+3 letters: amylogen, beglamor, beglooms, comingle, eglomise, eulogium, filmgoer, gamboled, gemology, gladsome, gleesome, gloomier, glosseme, gomerals, gomerels, gomerils, gormless, gromwell, homegirl, legrooms, lodgment, longsome, longtime, mangonel, megalops, megavolt, menology, mesoglea, mislodge, modeling, mongrels, moulages, oligomer, promulge, smogless. | |
+4 letters: amylogens, angleworm, beglamors, beglamour, begloomed, collegium, comingled, comingles, commingle, employing, etymology, eulogiums, filmgoers, gambolled, gemmology, gladsomer, glamorise, glamorize, glamoured, glomerule, glomeruli, gloomiest, glossemes, gnomelike, gromwells, guacamole, guillemot, homegirls, homologue, lightsome, lodgement, lodgments, mangonels, megavolts, megilloth, mellowing, mesogleas, mesogloea, metrology, mislodged, mislodges, modelings, modelling, moldering, molesting, monologue, morseling, museology, myologies, neologism, nonlegume, oligomers, pommeling, promulged, promulges, remolding, rigmarole, semigloss, semiology, welcoming. | |
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