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Definition: Cimmerian |
CimmerianAdjective1. Intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cimmerian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Etymology: Cimmerian \Cim*me"ri*an\, adjective. [Latin expression Cimmerius.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Cimmerian |
| English words defined with "Cimmerian": Black warrior, Bosporian ♦ Kimmerian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cimmerian": Cimmerian Bosphorus, Cimmerian Darkness. (references) |
| "Cimmerian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cimmerian" 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
cimmerian conan | 3 |
cimmerian | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Cimmerian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тъмен (black, blackish, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), кимерийски. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nechápavý (inept, obtuse, slow witted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kimmériai. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | immeriancay cimério. (various references) темный (black, blackish, blind, dark, darksome, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre, sunless, tenebrous, unlit), киммерийский. (various references) tamam, kimerski. (various references) oscuro (abstruse, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dim, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, pitchy, shadowy, twilight, vat). (various references) темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, dark, darkling, darksome, lowering, murk, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), кімерійський, непроглядний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cimmerian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cimonian, Commersant, filmerian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Cimmerian" (pronounced 'Cim*me"ri*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-m-n-r" | |
-2 letters: carmine, mincier, minicam, minicar. | |
-3 letters: airmen, aminic, ammine, anemic, carmen, carnie, cinema, iceman, immane, irenic, maimer, marine, merman, mincer, minima, remain. | |
-4 letters: acini, aimer, amice, amici, amine, amnic, anime, animi, areic, cairn, caner, ceria, crane, cream, crime, erica, icier, imine, inarm, macer, mamie, manic, micra, mimer, mimic, minae, mince, miner, minim, nacre, namer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-m-n-r" | |
+3 letters: mercantilism. | |
+4 letters: antisymmetric, ceremonialism, circumambient, commiserating, commiseration, mercantilisms, microfilament, monoaminergic. | |
+5 letters: anticommercial, ceremonialisms, commiserations, commissionaire, immunoreactive, impermanencies, incrementalism, microanatomies, microfilaments, microminiature. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 6D 6D 65 72 69 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. -- -- . .-. .. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01101101 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i m m e r i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 006D 006D 0065 0072 0069 0061 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)377579797184756780 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulharský, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, болгарський |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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