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Definition: Ajax |
AjaxNoun1. A mythical Greek hero; a warrior who fought against Troy in Homer's Iliad. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ajax" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a mourner". |
Date "Ajax" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
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Literature | Ajax the Greater. King of Salamis, a man of giant stature, daring, and self-confident. Generally called Telamon Ajax, because he was the son of Telamon. When the armour of Hector was awarded to Ulysses instead of to himself, he turned mad from vexation and stabbed himself. - Homer's Iliad, and later poets. Ajax the Less Son of Oïleus (3 syl.), King of Locris, in Greece. The night Troy was taken, he offered violence to Cassandra, the prophetic daughter of Priam; in consequence of which his ship was driven on a rock, and he perished at sea. - Homer's Iliad, and later poets. "Ipsa (Juno), Jovis rapidum jaculata e nubibus ignem, Disjecitque rates, evertitque æquora ventis; Illum (Ajax) expirantem transfixo pectore flammas Turbine corripuit, scopuloque infixit acuto." Virgil: Æneid, i. 42, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A high-strength, high-density, gelatinous permitted explosive having good water resistance; used for dry and wet conditions both in rock and in thebreaking of hard coal. See also:Polar Ajax. (references) |
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The name Ajax can refer to:
- one of two figures in Homer's Iliad:
- Ajax the lesser King of Locris
- Ajax the great King of Salamis, a legendary hero of ancient Greece; sometimes called "Telamonian Ajax"
- Ajax, a tragedy by Sophocles
- Ajax Amsterdam, the major football team of Amsterdam
- Ajax cleanser, a trademarked line of household cleaning products made by Colgate-Palmolive
- Ajax, Ontario, Canada
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Ajax: Football club from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
History
Founded on March 18, 1900.
Honours
Stadium: Amsterdam Arena, also written in camel case: ArenA (Amsterdam southeast).
- Dutch championship: 1918, 1919, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1957, 1960, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002.
- Dutch cup: 1917, 1943, 1961, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2002.
- European Champion Club's Cup / UEFA Champions League: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1995.
- European Cup Winners Cup: 1987.
- UEFA Cup: 1987.
- European Supercup: 1972, 1973, 1995.
- World Club Cup / European-South America Cup: 1972, 1995.
Famous Ajax players
- Marco van Basten
- Dennis Bergkamp
- Ronald Koeman
- Patrick Kluivert
- Jari Litmanen
See also
Dutch Football League teams
Exernal link
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From an old 1911 Encyclopedia
Ajax (Of the earth) son of Telamon, king of Salamis, a legendary hero of ancient Greece. To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus, he was called "Ajax the Great" or "Telamonian Ajax". In Homer's Iliad he is described as of great stature and colossal frame, second only to Achilles in strength and bravery, and the 'bulwark of the Achaeans'.
During the Trojan War, Ajax fought Hector while Achilles sulked over an argument with Agamemnon. Ajax wounded but did not kill him. He did kill Phorcys. In Homer's Odyssey, with the aid of Athena, Ajax rescued the body of Achilles from the hands of the Trojans. In the competition between him and Odysseus for the armour of Achilles, Agamemnon, at the instigation of Athena, awarded the prize to Odysseus. This so enraged Ajax that it caused his death (Odyssey, xi. 541). According to a later and more detailed story, his disappointment drove him mad; he rushed out of his tent and fell upon the flocks of sheep in the camp under the impression that they were the Trojan enemy; on coming to his senses, in shame he killed himself with the sword which he had received as a present from Hector. This is the account of his death given in the Ajax of Sophocles; in Pindar's "Nemea", 7; and in Ovid, Metamorphoses, xiii. 1). From his blood sprang a red flower, as at the death of Hyacinthus, which bore on its leaves the initial letters of his name Ai, also expressive of lament (Pausanias i. 35. 4). His ashes were deposited in a golden urn on the Rhoetean promontory at the entrance of the Hellespont.
Like Achilles; he is represented as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube (Pausanias iii. 19. 11). Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour (Pausanias i. 35). At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman lectisternium. The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad (book ii. 557 or 558), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island. Ajax then became an Attic hero; he was worshipped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was called after his name.
Many illustrious Athenians -- Cimon, Miltiades, Alcibiades, the historian Thucydides -- traced their descent from Ajax.
Alternative: Aias
Homer. Iliad VII, 181-312; Homer. Odyssey XI, 543-67; Apollodorus. Epitome III, 11-V, 7; Ovid. Metamorphoses XII, 620-XIII, 398.
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From an old 1911 Encyclopedia
Ajax (Gr. Aias), a Greek hero, son of Oileus, king of Locris, called the "lesser" or Locrian Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax, son of Telamon. He fought on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War.
In spite of his small stature, he held his own amongst the other heroes before Troy; he was brave, next to Achilles in swiftness of foot and famous for throwing the spear. But he was boastful, arrogant and quarrelsome; like the Telamonian Ajax, he was the enemy of Odysseus, and in the end the victim of the vengeance of Athene, who wrecked his ship on his homeward voyage (Odyssey, iv. 499).
A later story gives a more definite account of the offence of which he was guilty. It is said that, after the fall of Troy, he dragged Cassandra away by force from the statue of the goddess at which she had taken refuge as a suppliant, and raped her (Lycophron, 360, Quintus Smyrnaeus xiii. 422). For this, his ship was wrecked in a storm on the coast of Euboea, and he himself was struck by lightning (Virgil, Aen. i. 40).
He was said to have lived after his death in the island of Leuke. He was worshipped as a national hero by the Opuntian Locrians (on whose coins he appears), who always left a vacant place for him in the ranks of their army when drawn up in battle array. He was the subject of a lost tragedy by Sophocles. The rape of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in Greek works of art, for instance on the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias (v. 17) and in extant works.
Ajax the lesser was the father of Eurysaces by Tecmessa.
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Ajax (2003 population 76,000) is a town located in the Golden Horseshoe of south central Ontario, Canada.The town was first incorporated in 1941 when a Defence Industries Limited shell plant was constructed and a townsite grew around the plant. The town was named Ajax after the first naval victory of World War II. Although the plant closed when the war ended in 1945, the town survived. Today, Ajax is a suburb of Toronto and is part of the Greater Toronto Area.
North: Pickering West: Pickering Ajax East: Whitby South: Lake Ontario Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ajax, Ontario."
Crosswords: Ajax |
| English words defined with "Ajax": To wit ♦ Zebra swallowtail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ajax": Alifanfaron ♦ Morcol. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ajax" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (Ajax), Dutch (Ajax), French (Ajax), Portuguese (Ajax). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ajax 68 (1968) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sinking in Ulithi anchorage after she was hit by a Japanese suicide torpedo, 20 November 1944. Photographed from USS Ajax (AR-6). Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Overpowered by the sky" by Nathan Sudds Commentary: "Powerlines overhead in a field, north Ajax, Ontario, Canada - scenes like this cause me to be amazed by God's creation :) Hope someone can use it, resolution isn't as good as I would have liked <br> <br>Shot on a Canon S10 digital cam (2.0" |
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| "Ajax" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 46.43% of the time. "Ajax" is used about 28 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) | 46.43% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.71% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.71% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 7.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
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| "Ajax" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a mourner". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Ajax." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Aias | Male | Greek Mythology | Ajax |
| Ajax | Male | Greek Mythology (Latinized) | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| Netherlands | AFC Ajax NV |
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Expression using "Ajax": Iphiclides ajax. 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ajax | 523 | ajax city | 14 |
ajax canada | 80 | ajax anti | 13 |
ajax town | 67 | ajax high school | 13 |
ajax amsterdam | 63 | afc ajax amsterdam | 12 |
ajax grip | 46 | ajax hospital pickering | 11 |
ajax ontario | 46 | ajax cleaner | 11 |
ajax parking | 26 | ajax football club | 10 |
ajax soccer | 23 | ajax cleanser | 10 |
afc ajax | 20 | ajax home | 10 |
ajax boiler | 19 | ajax wallpaper | 10 |
ajax real estate | 18 | ajax center community | 10 |
ajax football shirt | 18 | ajax pickering transit | 10 |
ajax fc | 18 | ajax map | 9 |
ajax transit | 17 | ajax shirt | 9 |
ajax network | 16 | airport ajax parking | 9 |
ajax logo | 16 | ajax gsm logo | 8 |
advertiser ajax news | 16 | ajax nike | 8 |
ajax club soccer | 14 | ajax map ontario | 7 |
ajax library public | 14 | ajax home resale | 7 |
advertiser ajax news pickering | 14 | ajax msds | 7 |
compressor ajax | 7 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "Ajax"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Ajax. (various references) | |
Dutch | Ajax. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Ajaco. (various references) | |
French | Ajax. (various references) | |
Greek | αϊάσ. (various references) | |
Italian | Aiace. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ajaxay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Ajax. (various references) | |
Russian | аякс. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Ajax" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aja, ajab, Ajai, Ajaj, ajam, ajan, ajav, ajaw, Ajazi, ajex, Ajfan, Aji, Ajmal, Ajwaad, ajx, Anax, Anjad, Apax, Aqj, Arax, awax, Djax, Ija, Sajjad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-j-x" | |
-2 letters: aa, ax. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-j-x" | |
+2 letters: banjax. | |
+4 letters: banjaxed, banjaxes, jambeaux. | |
+5 letters: banjaxing. | |
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