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Hamartia

Definition: Hamartia

Hamartia

Noun

1. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.

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

Synonym: Hamartia

Synonym: tragic flaw (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Hamartia

DomainTitle

Books

  • Erodios philamartemon : tropos hyparxeos sten hamartia kai ste chare anamesa (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hamartia

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

hamartia

14

hamartia oedipus

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hamartia

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

Pig Latin

  

amartiahay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Hamartia

Derivations

Words beginning with "hamartia": hamartias. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Hamartia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-h-i-m-r-t"

-2 letters: amrita, tamari, tarama, thairm, thiram.

-3 letters: airth, arhat, atria, ihram, maria, mirth, riata, tharm, tiara.

-4 letters: airt, amah, amia, amir, aria, atma, haar, hair, harm, hart, maar, mair, mart, math, raia, rami, rath, tahr, thir, tram, trim.

-5 letters: aah, aha, aim, air, ait, ama, ami, arm, art, ham, hat, him, hit, mar, mat, mir, rah, ram, rat, ria, rim, tam, tar.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-h-i-m-r-t"
 

+1 letter: hamartias.

 

+2 letters: charismata.

 

+3 letters: amaranthine, matriarchal, prothalamia.

 

+4 letters: charlatanism, humanitarian, matriarchate.

 

+5 letters: charlatanisms, diaphragmatic, humanitarians, matriarchates, rhadamanthine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hamartia


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

48 61 6D 61 72 74 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)

01001000 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006D 0061 0072 0074 0069 0061

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

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

4267796784867567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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