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PRONUNCIATION OF CADMEAN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CADMEAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cadmean is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CADMEAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cadmean

Cadmus

Cadmus /ˈkædməs/ or Kadmos in Greek mythology, was a Phoenician prince, the son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa. He was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named Cadmeia in his honour. Cadmus was credited by the ancient Greeks with introducing the original Alphabet or Phoenician alphabet -- phoinikeia grammata, "Phoenician letters"—to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet. Herodotus estimates that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BC. Herodotus had seen and described the Cadmean writing in the temple of Apollo at Thebes engraved on certain tripods. He estimated those tripods to date back to the time of Laius the great-grandson of Cadmus. On one of the tripods there was this inscription in Cadmean writing, which, as he attested, resembled Ionian letters: Ἀμφιτρύων μ᾽ ἀνέθηκ᾽ ἐνάρων ἀπὸ Τηλεβοάων.

Definition of Cadmean in the English dictionary

The definition of Cadmean in the dictionary is of or relating to Cadmus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CADMEAN


acromion
əˈkrəʊmɪən
Alabamian
ˌæləˈbæmɪən
anthemion
ænˈθiːmɪən
antinomian
ˌæntɪˈnəʊmɪən
Bahamian
bəˈheɪmɪən
Bohemian
bəʊˈhiːmɪən
camion
ˈkæmɪən
Crimean
kraɪˈmɪən
Endymion
ɛnˈdɪmɪən
epithalamion
ˌepɪθəˈleɪmɪən
isthmian
ˈɪsθmɪən
Mesopotamian
ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmɪən
neonomian
ˌnɪəˈnəʊmɪən
Permian
ˈpɜːmɪən
prosimian
prəʊˈsɪmɪən
Samian
ˈseɪmɪən
Simeon
ˈsɪmɪən
simian
ˈsɪmɪən
syndyasmian
ˌsɪndɪˈæzmɪən
thermion
ˈθɜːmɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CADMEAN

Cadiz
Cadmean victory
cadmic
cadmium
cadmium cell
cadmium sulphide
cadmium yellow
Cadmus
cadrans
cadre
caduac
caducean
caducei
caduceus
caducibranchiate
caducity
caducous
Cadwalader
CAE

WORDS THAT END LIKE CADMEAN

Aramean
arithmetic mean
bemean
demean
foremean
geometric mean
golden mean
harmonic mean
mean
mean deviation from the mean
misdemean
Nemean
no mean
pygmean

Synonyms and antonyms of Cadmean in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
380 millions of speakers
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅडेमॅन
75 millions of speakers

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iki tarafında zararlı çıktığı
70 millions of speakers

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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
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Cadmean
10 millions of speakers
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Cadmean
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Trends of use of Cadmean

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CADMEAN»

The term «Cadmean» is used very little and occupies the 178.614 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CADMEAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cadmean

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CADMEAN»

Discover the use of Cadmean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cadmean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Uncivil Seasons
Cadmean had given you his vote of confidence over at the city council." "Was I saying that?" Cadmean threw up his old hands in innocent openness. "I appreciate everybody's vote," Cuddy said. Cadmean grinned. "Some votes count more than ...
Michael Malone, 1993
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Adages: IIvii1 to IIIiii100
34 Cadmea victoria A Cadmean victory Kdt5/ieio? viKf), A Cadmean victory. For this adage different accounts are offered of both meaning and1 origin. Some think an unprofitable victory was called 'Cadmean' because the Thebans Eteocles ...
Desiderius Erasmus, 1992
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Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia ...
Mother also joined a literary club, the Cadmean Circle, to which all the leading ladies belonged. The Cadmean Circle was a great institution in Birmingham and was just the ultimate for all the proper ladies. The members had to give papers, ...
Virginia Foster Durr, Hollinger F. Barnard, 1990
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Black Athena Revisited
1470 B.C.E. and sees evidence of this in the Parian Marble, which recorded Cadmus' arrival in Thebes in 1518/17 B.C.E., and Herodotus' (5.59.1) report of seeing "Cadmean letters" in Thebes. From this he argues that Linear B was used  ...
Mary R. Lefkowitz, Guy MacLean Rogers, 1996
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A critical history of the language and literature of ancient ...
The Cadmean legend, in any more critical estimate of its bearings on the history of the art, must be viewed in a more extended light than that in which it is usually contemplated, as limited to a single Sidonian colonist in Boeotia. Cadmus is a ...
William Mure, 1854
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A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient ...
The historical evidence would be about as good in the one as in the other case ; and the language of the Normans, when they first appear in authentic history, differs as little from the vulgar French, as that of the Cadmean Boeotians did from  ...
William Mure, 1854
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Philosophy, Literature, and Politics: Essays Honoring Ellis ...
Xenophon was also silent about the fate of Laelaps when he encountered the uncatchable Cadmean vixen—Zeus turned both hound and fox to stone. As a result of hunting, Kephalos lost three things: his most famous quarry, his hound, and ...
Charles R. Embry, Barry Cooper, 2005
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The Roman antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis
... Evander in that country to the sixtieth year before the Trojan war. These letters had been brdught into Greece by Cadmus from Phœnicia, as we find by f Herodotus,, who says that he himself saw several inscriptions in these Cadmean letters ...
Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.), Polybius, 1758
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The Celtic Druids
It will then follow, according to the present hypothesis, that the Eastern nation from whom they came had at first only thirteen ; that after the Etruscan colony came to Italy the Cadmean or Eastern nation or Ceitse, KsAtoi, increased their letters to ...
Godfrey Higgins, 2007
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The Roman Antiquities
These letters had been brought into Greece by Cadmus from Phœnicia, as- we find by l Herodotus, who fays that he himself saw several inscriptions in these Cadmean letters on tripods in the temple of the Ismenian Apollo at Thebes in Bœotia.
Dionysius (Halicarnassensis), 1758

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CADMEAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cadmean is used in the context of the following news items.
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Great Aspirations of the Iron Age
But the Greeks also thought their own city of Thebes had been founded by a Phoenician, Cadmus, a civilizing hero who brought "Cadmean ... «AINA, Dec 14»
2
Martin Bernal, 'Black Athena' Scholar, Dies at 76
His other books, which also focused on the theme of intercultural borrowing, were “Chinese Socialism Before 1907” (1976) and “Cadmean ... «New York Times, Jun 13»
3
Professor Martin Bernal, 'Black Athena' author, dies at 76
His other books include “Chinese Socialism Before 1907” (1976); and “Cadmean Letters: The Westward Diffusion of The Semitic Alphabet ... «Cornell Chronicle, Jun 13»
4
Lakers Game Preview: Lakers Must Play as a Team to Take Down …
On Friday night the Lakers logged a Cadmean victory over the Warriors. On one hand it was a great come-from-behind win, which the Lakers ... «Lakers Nation, Apr 13»
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Context MC chosen for BBC Radio 1 Introducing playlist
Context MC is now planning the release of his nine-track EP, The Cadmean Victory, featuring remixes of Listening to Burial and Off With Their ... «BBC News, Sep 11»
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MTV success for Norwich rapper Context MC
The single version of Off With Their Heads, featuring Vertex of Marvell, will appear on Context's EP The Cadmean Victory to be released in the ... «BBC News, Mar 11»
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Stan Dogbe, The 'Media Baron'
This effort has ended in a cadmean victory for Stan. Good swimmers are often drowned. He felt emboldened to promote his own interest, at the ... «GhanaWeb, Sep 10»
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Doctor Who: The Dalek War DVD review
... and Draconian empires and plunge the two into a brutal inter-planetary war, a war that could only ever result in a Cadmean victory at best. «Den Of Geek, Oct 09»
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 10 Tips for Outsourcing Incentives …
Provisions that are overly broad, purely punitive or poorly thought out will be ineffective—or worse—injurious to the relationship, a Cadmean ... «CIO, Apr 09»

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