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Definition: Silenus |
SilenusNoun1. Any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs). 2. The chief satyr in the service of Bacchus; father of Dionysus; usually depicted as drunk and jolly and riding a donkey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "silenus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Silenus The foster-father of Bacchus, fond of music, and a prophet, but indomitably lazy, wanton, and given to debauch. He is described as a jovial old man, with bald head, pug nose, and face like Bardolph's. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Silenus |
| English words defined with "silenus": Wanderoo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "silenus": silene. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Crouching Silenus, Stage of Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | For Silenus read Ramponneau. |
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| "Silenus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Silenus" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "silenus": Macacus silenus. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
silenus | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "silenus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | الهه جنگل(یونان قدیم). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilenussay силен (sileni). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lunies, unless. | |
-2 letters: ileus, isles, issue, lenis, liens, lieus, lines, lunes, nisus, sines, sinus, slues. | |
-3 letters: isle, leis, lens, less, lien, lies, lieu, line, lins, lues, lune, ness, nils, seis, sels, sine, sins, slue, sues, suns, uses. | |
-4 letters: els, ens, ess, ins, lei, leu, lie, lin, lis, nil, nus, sei, sel, sen, sin, sis. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: elusions, inulases, spinules, splenius, sublines, ugliness, utensils. | |
+2 letters: bulkiness, burliness, bustlines, curliness, delusions, emulsions, evulsions, fluidness, insulates, insulters, lemniscus, lousiness, lucidness, luckiness, lumpiness, luridness, lustiness, lutenists, nebulises, pulpiness, seclusion, seleniums, sensillum, spinulose, sulkiness, surliness, unselfish. | |
+3 letters: bluishness, blurriness, cloudiness, clubbiness, clumsiness, diluteness, exclusions, expulsions, faultiness, fitfulness, fluffiness, futileness, guiltiness, inclosures, insolubles, klutziness, languishes, licensures, limousines, liquidness, luminesces, lungfishes, masculines, miniscules, minuscules, mousseline, mulishness, multisense, nautiluses, peninsulas, pluckiness, plushiness, prelusions, publicness, reclusions, repulsions, revulsions, seclusions, sensualism, sensualist, sensuality, sensualize, sinfulness, sinologues, slushiness, snuffliest, subleasing, sublicense, sultriness, surcingles, turnstiles, uglinesses, unassailed, unholiness, universals, unlikeness, unruliness, urinalyses, vulcanises. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 6C 65 6E 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. .-.. . -. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01101100 01100101 01101110 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i l e n u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 006C 0065 006E 0075 0073 |
| 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)53757871808785 |
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Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | русский |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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