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"ISMENE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a foundation", "a seat". |
Date "ISMENE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ismene (3 syl.) Daughter of OEdipus and Jocasta. Antigone was buried alive by the order of King Creon, for burying her brother Polynices, slain in combat by his brother Eteocles. Ismene declared that she had aided her sister, and requested to be allowed to share the same punishment. Ismene. The lady-love of Ismenias, in the erotic romance of Eustathius or Eumathius entitled Ismene and Ismenias (twelfth century). Translated by Godfrey of Viterbo. Especially noteworthy from its being reproduced in the Confessio Amantis of Gower, and forming the plot of Shakespeare's Pericles. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year. However, they showed no concern for their father, who cursed them for their negligence. After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters (the Seven Against Thebes). Both brothers died in the battle. King Creon, who ascended to the throne of Thebes, decreed that Polynices was not to be buried. Antigone, his sister, defied the order, but was caught. Creon decreed that she was to be buried alive, this in spite of her betrothal to his son Haemon. Antigone's sister, Ismene, then declared she had aided Antigone and wanted the same fate. The gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order, and he went to bury Polynices himself. However, Antigone had already hanged herself rather than be buried alive. When Creon arrived at the tomb where she was to be interred, Haemon attacked him and then killed himself. When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of their death she too took her own life.
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| "ISMENE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ISMENE" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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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 |
ismene | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "ISMENE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | Ισμήνη. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ismeneay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: mense, mesne, miens, mines, neems, seine, semen. | |
-2 letters: emes, mien, mine, mise, neem, nims, seem, seen, seme, semi, sene, sine. | |
-3 letters: eme, ems, ens, ins, ism, men, mis, nee, nim, see, sei, sen, sim, sin. | |
-4 letters: em, en, es, in, is, me, mi, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: emetins, enemies, ermines, immense, meanies, meinies, nemesis, seeming, sidemen, siemens. | |
+2 letters: centimes, demonise, emersion, emetines, enamines, endemics, endemism, enmities, etamines, examines, feminise, hemlines, immenser, inmeshed, inmeshes, linesmen, matinees, meetings, meninges, miseaten, misenter, misevent, missense, monetise, myelines, nominees, regimens, reinsmen, sediment, seemings, selenium, seminude, semitone, smeeking, specimen, spermine, tenesmic. | |
+3 letters: ambiences, amenities, amnestied, amnesties, antimeres, bemingles, beseeming, centesimi, centesimo, deaminase, dementias, demilunes, demonised, demonises, demonizes, dimnesses, domineers, economies, economise, ecumenics, ecumenism, ecumenist, emersions, eminences, emptiness, enamelist, endemisms, enmeshing, epicenism, eponymies, estaminet, esteeming, examinees, examiners, exciseman, excisemen, feminines, feminised, feminises, feminizes, filenames, fishermen, geminates, hemateins, hematines, hexamines, ilmenites, immensely, immensest, intermesh, isoenzyme, jessamine, limestone, limonenes, luminesce, magnesite, magnetise, mainsheet, meantimes, meatiness, medicines, melamines, melanites, melanizes, melinites, meringues, merriness, mescaline, messaline, messiness, mestinoes, mijnheers, milestone, misdefine, misenters, misevents, mispenned, misrender, missenses, mistended, modernise, moistened, moistener, monetised, monetises, monetizes, monkeries, monoecies, mutineers, nimieties, overmines, pediments, pemolines, primeness, regiments, relumines, reminders, reminisce, remoisten, rereminds, seaminess, sediments, seemingly, seleniums, semitones, sentiment, sermonize, sixteenmo, solemnize, specimens, spermines, tenebrism, theremins, timelines, tribesmen, wisewomen, zonetimes. | |
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