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Definition: Helicon |
HeliconNoun1. A tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "helicon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Helicon \Hel"i*con\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
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Fine Arts | A bass tuba produced in a circular form for placing round the body of a marching bandsman. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Helicon The Muses' Mount. It is part of the Parnassos, a mountain range in Greece. Helicon's harmonious stream is the stream which flowed from Helicon to the fountains of the Muses, called Aganippe and Hippocrene (3 syl.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, Helicon is the name of the home planet of Hari Seldon, discoverer and developer of psychohistory.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Helicon."
Synonym: HeliconSynonym: bombardon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Noun: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Helicon |
| English words defined with "helicon": Aonian fount ♦ Caballine spring ♦ Heliconian, Hippocrene. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "helicon": Aganippe. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "helicon": Heliconia. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hesiod | With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing. |
| They once taught Hesiod beauteous song, when he was shepherding his sheep below holy Helicon. | |
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| "Helicon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Helicon" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
helicon | 46 |
tc helicon | 33 |
helicon quintet tc | 3 |
associate helicon | 2 |
helicon tc voiceworks | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "helicon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bastubë spirale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الهليكون ألة موسيقية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хеликон, извор на поетическо вдъхновение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | helikon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | helikon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hélicon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Helikon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελικών, ελικόν. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | helikon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eliconhay hélicon. (various references) геликон. (various references) helikon. (various references) helicon. (various references) helikon, güzel sanat ilâhelerinin dağı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "helicon": helicons. (additional references) | |
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"Helicon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cellucon, chelidon, Chelimo, Delichon, Ehicon, elixon, Halaicu, halcion, halcon, halicon, halycon, helic, helico, helicona, Heliconia, Heliconii, Helikon, helion, hellidon, hevican, hielcon, oerlikon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "helicon" (pronounced he"likÄ'n) |
| 4 | -i k Ä' n | lexicon. |
| 3 | -k Ä' n | pecan. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: choline. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: cineol, enolic, lichen. | |
-2 letters: chiel, chile, chine, chino, cline, clone, colin, eloin, helio, niche, nicol, oleic, olein. | |
-3 letters: ceil, chin, chon, cine, cion, clon, coil, coin, cole, cone, coni, echo, elhi, enol, heil, helo, hole, hone, icon, inch, lech, leno, lice, lich, lien, line, lino, lion, loch, loci, loin, lone, nice, noel, noil, once. | |
-4 letters: cel, chi, col, con, eon, hen, hic, hie, hin, hoe, hon, ice, ich, ion, lei, lie, lin, nil, noh, oil, ole, one. | |
-5 letters: eh, el, en, he, hi, ho, in, li, lo, ne, no, oe, oh, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: chlorine, cholines, helicons, phenolic, pinochle. | |
+2 letters: chelation, chelonian, chlorines, chronicle, cochineal, halocline, holocrine, lichenous, neolithic, phenolics, pinochles, touchline. | |
+3 letters: beclothing, bronchiole, chelations, chelonians, chloramine, chlorinate, chronicled, chronicler, chronicles, clomiphene, clothespin, cochineals, colchicine, echeloning, endolithic, ethnologic, haloclines, inchoately, neophiliac, nonethical, reclothing, telephonic, touchlines, xenolithic. | |
+4 letters: archegonial, bronchioles, cephalothin, chalcedonic, chameleonic, chloramines, chlorinated, chlorinates, chloroquine, cholinergic, chroniclers, clomiphenes, clothesline, clothespins, colchicines, colophonies, coltishness, cushionless, godchildren, goldfinches, hectoringly, hedonically, helicopting, hornblendic, interschool, lichenology, melancholia, melancholic, necrophilia, necrophilic, neophiliacs, nonathletic, nonchemical, nucleophile, polytechnic, punchinello, reschooling, slouchiness, technologic, technophile, thermocline. | |
+5 letters: biotechnical, cephalothins, chalcedonies, chalcogenide, chlorinities, chloroquines, chronologies, cloddishness, clotheslined, clotheslines, clownishness, cohesionless, conchologies, dechlorinate, diencephalon, echolocation, eosinophilic, ethnological, euphonically, geotechnical, hallucinogen, hallucinoses, heliocentric, inchoatively, incoherently, interschools, lysolecithin, melancholiac, melancholias, melancholics, melancholies, monophyletic, necrophiliac, necrophilias, necrophilism, neutrophilic, nightclothes, nonchemicals, nonhemolytic, nonspherical, nontechnical, nucleophiles, nucleophilic, nympholeptic, overchilling, perichondral, phenological, phenotypical, phonemically, phonetically, phylogenetic, plainclothes, polyphenolic, polytechnics, punchinellos, schnorkeling, technologies, technologist, technologize, technophiles, thermoclines, unchronicled, unrhetorical, zootechnical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6C 69 63 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-.. .. -.-. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e l i c o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006C 0069 0063 006F 006E |
| 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)42717875698180 |
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