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Naumachy

Definition: Naumachy

Naumachy

Noun

1. A naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans.

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

Etymology: Naumachy \Nau"ma*chy\, noun. [Latin expression naumachia, Greek; ship fight, battle, to fight.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Naumachy

Synonym: naumachia (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Naumachy

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

Pig Latin

  

aumachynay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Naumachy"

Words rhyming with "naumachy" (pronounced 'Nau"ma*chy'): Acouchy, Alectoromachy, Alectryom'achy, Autarchy, Batrachomyomachy, Centauromachy, Clechy, Cynarctomachy, Dinarchy, Duarchy, Entelechy, Gigantomachy, Gunarchy, Gynarchy, Hagiarchy, Iconomachy, Logomachy, Megalopsychy, Oligarchy, Orthostichy, Paparchy, Parastichy, Pentarchy, Plutarchy, Polarchy, Polyarchy, Psychomachy, Sciamachy, Sciomachy, sennachy, Synarchy, Tauromachy, Thearchy, Theomachy, Triarchy, Whiggarchy, Xenodochy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Naumachy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-m-n-u-y"

-2 letters: cayman.

-3 letters: human, mayan, munch, mynah, nucha, yamun.

-4 letters: achy, amah, ayah, cham, chay, chum, cyan, cyma, hymn, mach, mana, many, maun, maya, much, myna, yuan, yuca, yuch.

-5 letters: aah, aha, ama, amu, ana, any, cam, can, cay, cum, ham, hay, hum, hun, mac, man, may, mun, nah, nam, nay, yah, yam, yum.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-m-n-u-y"
 

+5 letters: unimpeachably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Naumachy


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

4E 61 75 6D 61 63 68 79

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)

01001110 01100001 01110101 01101101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#117 &#109 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 0075 006D 0061 0063 0068 0079

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

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

4867877967697491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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