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Definition: Athene |
AtheneNoun1. (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva. 2. A genus of Strigidae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Athene" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonym: AtheneSynonym: genus Athene (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Athene |
| Etymologies containing "Athene": Parthenon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Athene" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Athena, Athene, Athens), Dutch (Athena, Athene, Athens), German (Athena, Athene, Athens), Manx (Athene). |
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| "Athene" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Athene" is used about 26 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) | 92.31% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Unclassified Items | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Athene": Athene noctua ♦ genus Athene ♦ Pallas Athene. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
athene | 29 |
athene reizen | 4 |
athene goddess | 4 |
athene vakantie | 4 |
athene campingvlucht | 4 |
athene pallas | 4 |
athene ferry | 3 |
athene plaza | 3 |
athene moss | 3 |
athene goddess greek | 3 |
athene cunicularia | 3 |
athene picture | 2 |
athene hotel | 2 |
ancient athene cleeon famous history man miltiadis nicias | 2 |
athene avion billet d | 2 |
athene inc.com | 2 |
athene song | 2 |
athene last minute | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Athene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | Athene (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Athinë (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Атина (Athena). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Athene (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Ateno (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Athènes (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Athene (Athena, Athens), Athen (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Athén (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Atene (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Athene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atheneay atena (athena). (various references) Афины (Athena, Athens), Афина (Athena). (various references) Atenas (Athena, Athens). (various references) Atenas (Athena, Athens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Athenæ. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Athene": atheneum, atheneums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ethane. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-n-t" | |
-1 letter: eaten, enate, neath, thane. | |
-2 letters: ante, eath, etna, haen, haet, hant, hate, heat, hent, neat, teen, thae, than, thee, then. | |
-3 letters: ane, ant, ate, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, hen, het, nae, nah, nee, net, nth, tae, tan, tea, tee, ten, the. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, an, at, eh, en, et, ha, he, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-n-t" | |
+1 letter: beneath, earthen, ethanes, haptene, hearten, heathen, heptane, lethean, methane, phenate, thenage, wheaten. | |
+2 letters: adherent, anethole, anthemed, antheses, atheneum, earthmen, echinate, elephant, ensheath, enswathe, exanthem, exhalent, haptenes, hastened, hastener, headnote, heartens, heathens, hematein, hematine, heptanes, herniate, leathern, methanes, neatherd, phenates, thebaine, thenages, threaten, unheated, urethane, wheatens, wreathen, xanthene. | |
+3 letters: adherents, anetholes, asthenies, athenaeum, atheneums, bethanked, chanteuse, chastened, chastener, deathsmen, elephants, enchanted, enchanter, ensheathe, ensheaths, enswathed, enswathes, entrechat, enwreathe, euthanize, eutherian, exanthema, exanthems, exhalents, hasteners, headnotes, headstone, heartened, hemateins, hematines, herniated, herniates, hesitance, hibernate, hyphenate, inbreathe, inearthed, mainsheet, methadone, naphthene, narthexes, natheless, neatherds, pachytene, phenacite, phenakite, phenolate, reheating, thebaines, threatens, toxaphene, unearthed, unsheathe, unteaches, unwreathe, urethanes, xanthenes. | |
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