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Phantasmagoria

Definition: Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria

Noun

1. A constantly changing medley or real or imagined images (as in a dream).

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

Date "phantasmagoria" was first used: 1802. (references)

Etymology: Phantasmagoria \Phan*tas`ma*go"ri*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression phantasm an assembly, from to gather: compare to the French expression phantasmagorie.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Phantasmagoria

English words defined with "phantasmagoria": Phantasmagorial, Phantasmagory. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Phantasmagoria

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Books

  • Phantasmagoria (reference)

  • Phantasmagoria and Other Poems [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  • Phantasmagoria the Official Sierra Insid (reference)

  • Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh: The Official Strategy Guide (Phantasmagoria , No 2) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Use in Literature: Phantasmagoria

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This rigmarole of Rue Blomet, of Pamela, of barracks, of a lancer, had passed before Marius like a phantasmagoria.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Phantasmagoria

"Phantasmagoria" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Phantasmagoria" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)77.78%7133,076
Noun (proper)22.22%2245,945
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Phantasmagoria

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.
 
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per Day

  phantasmagoria

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  phantasmagoria through walk

12

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12

  phantasmagoria 2

10

  phantasmagoria puzzle of flesh

10

  2 phantasmagoria through walk

4

  game pc phantasmagoria

4

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4

  cheat phantasmagoria

3

  phantasmagoria sierra

3

  phantasmagoria stagefright

3

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  2 patch phantasmagoria

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  2 download phantasmagoria

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  phantasmagoria soundtrack

2

  demo phantasmagoria

2

  phantasmagoria 2 a puzzle of flesh

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

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Modern Translations: Phantasmagoria

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

Albanian

  

fantazmagori. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

фантасмагория (moonshine). (various references)

   

Czech

  

fantazmagorie. (various references)

   

German

  

Trugbilder (phantasms). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φαντασμαγορία. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

varázstükör, szüntelen változó kép, fantazmagória (fantasy, moonshine, phantasm). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fantasmagoria. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

antasmagoriaphay

   

Portuguese

  

fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasy, reverie, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fantasmagorie (phantasmagory), aberaţie (aberration, absurdity, fallacy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фантасмагория. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

fantazmagorija. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fantasmagoría. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gyckelspel (hocus pocus, illusion), fantasmagori. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

projektör ile yapılan görüntü oyunu. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фантасмагорія. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ảo cảnh (vision). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Phantasmagoria

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

phantasma. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Phantasmagoria

Derivations

Words beginning with "phantasmagoria": phantasmagorias. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Phantasmagoria" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phantasmagoriah, phantasmagorie. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Phantasmagoria"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "phantasmagoria" (pronounced fanta'zmugô"rēu)
4-ô" r ē uCoria, crematoria, emporia, euphoria, Gloria, moratoria, Victoria.
3-r ē uaciduria, area, aria, Atria, bacteria, cafeteria, criteria, diphtheria, equilibria, Feria, honoraria, hypochondria, hysteria, imperia, malaria, nutria, rosaria.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Phantasmagoria

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-g-h-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-t"

-3 letters: prognathism.

-4 letters: inamoratas, parathions, ptarmigans.

-5 letters: agraphias, amaranths, anaphoras, angiomata, animators, arapaimas, atrophias, hamartias, hamstring, hiraganas, histogram, inamorata, maharanis, marathons, martagons, panoramas, paranoias, parathion, pastoring, phantasma, protamins, ptarmigan, samaritan, sanatoria, sporangia, straphang, tragopans.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-g-h-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: phantasmagorias.

 

+2 letters: phantasmagorical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Phantasmagoria


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

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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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "phantasmagoria"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "phantasmagoria"

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