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Meaning of "hapax" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HAPAX

hapax  [ˈhæpæks] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAPAX

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hapax is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HAPAX MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hapax legomenon

A hapax legomenon is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author's works, even though it occurs more than once in that work. Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, meaning " said once". The related terms dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively refer to double, triple, or quadruple occurrences, but are far less commonly used. Hapax legomena are quite common, as predicted by Zipf's law, which states that the frequency of any word in a work is inversely related to its rank in the frequency table. For large corpora, about 40% to 60% of the words are hapax legomena, and another 10% to 15% are dis legomena. Thus, in the Brown Corpus of American English, about half of the 50,000 words are hapax legomena within that corpus.

Definition of hapax in the English dictionary

The definition of hapax in the dictionary is a word that only appears once in a work of or genus of literature or in a body of work by a particular author.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HAPAX


Ajax
ˈeɪdʒæks
APACS
ˈæpæks
axe
æks
Backs
bæks
carapax
ˈkærəˌpæks
DAX
dæks
Fairfax
ˈfɛəfæks
fax
fæks
Halifax
ˈhælɪˌfæks
lax
læks
max
mæks
pax
pæks
relax
rɪˈlæks
sax
sæks
syntax
ˈsɪntæks
Tampax
ˈtæmpæks
tax
tæks
telefax
ˈtɛlɪfæks
tracks
træks
wax
wæks

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAPAX

hap
hapax legomena
hapax legomenon
hapaxanthic
hapaxanthous
haphazard
haphazardly
haphazardness
haphazardry
Haphtarah
Haphtaroth
hapkido
hapless
haplessly
haplessness
haplite
haplitic
haplobiont
haplobiontic
haplographies

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAPAX

after-tax
anthrax
Bax
beeswax
carfax
climax
coax
council tax
flax
hoax
income tax
parallax
property tax
rax
sales tax
Sfax
supermax
thorax
to the max
transfer tax

Synonyms and antonyms of hapax in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hapax» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAPAX

Find out the translation of hapax to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hapax from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hapax» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hapax
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hapax
570 millions of speakers

English

hapax
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hapax
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hapax
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Hapax
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hapax
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hapax
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hapax
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hapax
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hapax
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hapax
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hapax
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hapax
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hapax
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hapax
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हापिक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hapax
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hapax
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hapax
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Hapax
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

legomenon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hapax
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hapax
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hapax
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hapax
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hapax

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAPAX»

The term «hapax» is regularly used and occupies the 92.484 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HAPAX» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAPAX»

Discover the use of hapax in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hapax and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hapax: Poems
Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings.
A.E. Stallings, 2006
2
Hapax
"Full of passion and fire, with touches of Blade Runner and His Dark Materials, Hapax offers a slick and haunting vision of a world at the end of times." -Erik Scott de Bie, author of the Shadowbane series
K. T. Bryski, 2012
3
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5
Though of course we cannot be sure, many of the examples mentioned above may well have been as unique as so many Homeric similes.70 (iv) Hapax legomena A word which appears only once in Homer occurs on the average every 9.4 ...
Mark W. Edwards, G. S. Kirk, 1991
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Memory-Based Language Processing
Instance representation Word D W D W F W A W Class Consumers == == == == NNS HAPAX-C MD HAPAX-0 NNS may == == NNS HAPAX-C MD HAPAX-0 VBP -VB HAPAX-0 MD want NNS HAPAX-C MD HAPAX-0 VBP-VB HAPAX-0 TO to ...
Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch, 2005
5
Biblical Criticism on Trial: How Scientific is "scientific ...
of the New Testament hapax legomena, of the hapax legomena of the group to which it belongs, and of words that occur only once in this writing — but that still also occur within or even outside its group of New Testament writings. The term ...
Eta Linnemann, 2001
6
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians: A Commentary on the ...
The passage contains an accumulation of hapax legomena: four words occur nowhere else in the Greek Bible (erepoCvyew, ovpcpwvnaic, ovyKardOeaic, BeAidp), while another two25 are NT hapaxes (pemxrj, pokvapoc). At first sight these ...
Murray J. Harris, 2005
7
Aratus: Phaenomena
Attote in a Herodotean usage, 120 6irufiuos, hapax, 568 opyuiT), Ionic form, 69 opviOens. hapax, 274 6pv>xoiEV, hapax, 1086 6pxiXos, 1025 6tivi, 65 6TXTioavTts, Hellenistic form, 428 0OX05, Ionic form, 717 oupata, form and meaning of, ...
Aratus, Douglas Kidd, 1997
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Textual Patterns: Key Words and Corpus Analysis in Language ...
Hapax legomena (BNC) CEREALE CEREALICOLTURA CEREALOGISTS CEREBAL KRACUN KRACKERS SITTE'S SITTEST CEREBELLUMS KRAEMERS KRADER'S KRADS SITTING'S SITTYTON SITUATIONIST'S CEREBRISM CEREBLIS ...
Mike Scott, Chris Tribble, 2006
9
XIV CONGRESS OF THE IOSCS, HELSINKI, 2010
ary corpus—the so-called absolute hapax legornena—other words can, sometimes easily, be linked with related terms (non-absolute hapax legornena).4 In addition to the peculiar problem of defining the term hapax legornenon, the enigma of ...
Melvin K. Peters, 2013
10
The Authenticity of Ephesians (Een Onderzoek Naar de ...
For a long time the number of words in Eph. which do not occur in the rest of the N.T. or the CP, the so-called hapax legomena, counted as an objection against the authenticity of the epistle. But a close comparison of the frequencies of hapax  ...
A. Van Roon, 1974

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAPAX»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hapax is used in the context of the following news items.
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Thoughts on satire
(They glitter, too, with a demanding vocabulary: of the 4790 words in the Satires, 2130 are hapax legomena.) Who was Juvenal? We hardly ... «PJ Media, Jun 15»
2
Column 8: Girls and whiskey
Several readers, while impressed with Guy Cox's sod-breaking work on the vindication of the hapax legomenon "egma" (Column 8, Thursday), ... «Brisbane Times, Jun 15»
3
Column 8: My pal Cuddles
Now, to the "hapax egma" (Column 8, Monday). Ian Close used "hapax" (or more properly "hapax legomenon", from two Ancient Greek words ... «Brisbane Times, Jun 15»
4
Column 8: The 'two hats' cure
... words from the past, as in the hapax​ egma​ from Love's Labour's Lost, ... We're quite certain that we've never typed "the hapax​ egma​" ... «Brisbane Times, Jun 15»
5
Canton: Mississippi's film hot spot
"We pull strings, we call in favors, we make things happen," says Amile Wilson, Executive Producer at Hapax Creative in Jackson. Wilson was a ... «FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com, May 15»
6
Ephemeral art: 'Something Said Only Once' project comes to Flagstaff
Spring-boarding from hapax, Briggs and Johnson imagined a greater richness with their mini-festival, “Something Said Only Once.” Two more ... «Arizona Daily Sun, May 15»
7
TV reviews: Game of Thrones, University Challenge, Get the …
I certainly didn't, though Wikipedia subsequently informed me that the word "satyr" was a Shakesperean hapax legomenon, making only a ... «Irish Independent, Apr 15»
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Ted Loveday just won University Challenge with 'Hapax legomenon …
He gave the answer 'Hapax legomenon' in record time, if rather cutely mispronounced (not judging – we'd never even heard the term before). «Metro, Apr 15»
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Watch: This guy answers a question on University Challenge so fast …
WTF · University Challenge. We have no idea what 'hapax legomenon' is or what happened here but we're still impressed. Ted Loveday from ... «Entertainment.ie, Apr 15»
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Former Hammersmith schoolboy hailed University Challenge's …
@LatymerHead @edward_latymer thank you so much! Owed "hapax legomenon" (and others) squarely to teachers at @LatymerUpper. «getwestlondon, Apr 15»

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