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Meaning of "psychopomp" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PSYCHOPOMP

psychopomp  [ˈsaɪkəʊˌpɒmp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PSYCHOPOMP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Psychopomp 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 PSYCHOPOMP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

psychopomp

Psychopomp

Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply provide safe passage. Frequently depicted on funerary art, psychopomps have been associated at different times and in different cultures with horses, Whip-poor-wills, ravens, dogs, crows, owls, sparrows, cuckoos, and harts. In Jungian psychology, the psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms. It is symbolically personified in dreams as a wise man or woman, or sometimes as a helpful animal. In many cultures, the shaman also fulfills the role of the psychopomp. This may include not only accompanying the soul of the dead, but also vice versa: to help at birth, to introduce the newborn child's soul to the world. This also accounts for the contemporary title of "midwife to the dying", or "End of Life Doula" which is another form of psychopomp work.

Definition of psychopomp in the English dictionary

The definition of psychopomp in the dictionary is a fabled conductor who guides souls to the place of the dead.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PSYCHOPOMP


chomp
tʃɒmp
clomp
klɒmp
comp
kɒmp
pomp
pɒmp
romp
rɒmp
stomp
stɒmp
swamp
swɒmp
trompe
trɒmp
whomp
wɒmp
yomp
jɒmp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PSYCHOPOMP

psychopathic
psychopathic disorder
psychopathic personality
psychopathically
psychopathist
psychopathological
psychopathologist
psychopathology
psychopathy
psychopharmacological
psychopharmacologist
psychopharmacology
psychophily
psychophysical
psychophysicist
psychophysics
psychophysiological
psychophysiologist
psychophysiology
psychoprophylaxis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PSYCHOPOMP

amp
bump
camp
champ
clamp
dump
hump
imp
jump
lamp
mp
on the jump
on the stump
preamp
pump
ramp
stamp
temp
the high jump
Tromp

Synonyms and antonyms of psychopomp in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «psychopomp» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PSYCHOPOMP

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

Translator English - Chinese

psychopomp
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

psicopompa
570 millions of speakers

English

psychopomp
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साइकोपोम्प
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

psychopomp
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

психопомпом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

psychopomp
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

psychopomp
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

psychopompe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Psychopomp
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

psychopomp
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

psychopomp
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

psychopomp
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Psychopomp
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

psychopomp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

psychopomp
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मानसिक रोग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

psikopompos
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

psicopompo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

psychopomp
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

психопомп
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

psihopomp
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψυχοπομπός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

psychopomp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

psykopomp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

psychopomp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of psychopomp

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYCHOPOMP»

The term «psychopomp» is normally little used and occupies the 113.043 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PSYCHOPOMP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «psychopomp» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «psychopomp» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PSYCHOPOMP»

Discover the use of psychopomp in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to psychopomp and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Psychopomp Book No. 1
Benny Maniaks. gutter drains nearby. Sid stared at the middle of the shadowy storm, and could just see a person sitting there. Between wisps of dark, he could make out a woman wearing a purple dress and a golden crown. The vision made  ...
Benny Maniaks
2
Psychopomp: Volume One: Cracked Plate
Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate is the story of Meena, who suffers a mental fracture on Portland's light rail that alters her life in an instant.
Amanda Sledz, 2013
3
Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend
the Corpus 41 homily suggest that one of the archangel's most common roles in early medieval England was as psychopomp, or conveyor of the souls of the faithful to heaven at death. Verse-paragraph 14 suggests that it is St. Michael " who ...
Richard Freeman Johnson, 2005
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Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and ...
Winkelman, Michael. 2000. Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing. Westport: Bergin and Garvey. PSYCHOPOMP A psychopomp is a conductor or guide of the dead, someone who escorts the spirits of the dead to the ...
Mariko Namba Walter, Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, 2004
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Psychopomp
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
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Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook
The Psychopomp Posture The Psychopomp is the one who leads the soul, or psyche. In older times, when a person died the shaman or medicine woman would serve as a spiritual guide to lead the soul on its journey to the Realm of the Dead.
Belinda Gore, 1995
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Invoking Mary Magdalene: Accessing the Wisdom of the Divine ...
Recent discoveries of sacred texts such as the Gospel of Mary of Magdala and the Gospel of Thomas tell us that Mary Magdalene was independent, insightful, and courageousa woman so inspirational that her voice can still be heard across the ...
Siobhan Houston, 2010
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Psychopomp: A New Myth
This is the story of a nice kid named Eddie, who goes to work part-time for Charon, the ferryman, taking the dead across the River Styx to Hades.It's the best job he's ever had.
Joseph Dougherty, 2010
9
Explore Shamanism
A shaman does what a shaman is As we saw in chapter 1, Eliade (1964: 4–5) broadly summarised a shaman as a psychopomp, a practitioner of magical flight, a master of fire, a healer, and an ecstatic traveller to the sky or underworld. Stutley ...
Alby Stone, 2003
10
Deities, Spirits, and Mythic Beings: Jinn, Psychopomp, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PSYCHOPOMP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term psychopomp is used in the context of the following news items.
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Weird westerns that cross the genre border
Eloise “Lou” Merryweather is a Taoist “psychopomp”, gifted with the capacity to ... of psychopomp Lou Meryweather are finding a passionate cult readership. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
A Summer Reading List for Those Who Crave the Eclectic
This is the epitome of the weird Western adventure, featuring Elouise “Lou” Merriwether, a 19 -ear-old “psychopomp” keeping San Francisco safe from ghosts, ... «KQED, Jul 15»
3
This Action-Packed Book About A Female Ghostbuster Will Blow …
In Molly Tanzer's excellent debut novel Vermilion, Elouise 'Lou' Merriweather works the dead of San Francisco: she's a psychopomp, helping souls find eternal ... «io9, May 15»
4
Kuroma Pops Off (INTERVIEW)
After Psychopomp we toured a little bit with Tame Impala and did a couple of things, not much happened with that album. There was about a year of me just ... «The Horn, May 15»
5
'Vermilion' Finds New Magic In The Old West
For all its love of 19th-century Americana, though, Vermilion is decidedly not U.S.-centric. The hero is Elouise "Lou" Merriwether, a 19-year-old psychopomp: ... «NPR, Apr 15»
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Author Claire Bidwell Smith on life's good, bad and icky
Those same people call her a psychopomp — someone who acts as a link between this world and the next for others. "Right now I'm a bridge between all these ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 15»
7
The perfect G&T: what's the best tonic to pair with gin?
TEN's gutsy 47.3 per cent ABV hit, while Fentiman's scored highly with the Psychopomp gin, its hints of herbs and lemongrass bouncing along nicely with the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
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Psychopomp & Seething review: Lost in poetic, sensory space of …
Psychopomp places four surreal characters in an intricately arranged diorama, each sequestered in a miniature, hermetic world. Their traumatic memories ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 15»
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The Flying Dutchman review (Palais Theatre, Melbourne)
He's like a shrugging, clowning psychopomp, scurrying between two worlds, pimping his own daughter to one of Satan's damned. He brings to the surface, ... «Daily Review, Feb 15»
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New 3D Video Depicts Amphipolis Tomb Mosaic
The mosaic depicts Persephone's abduction by Pluto, in the presence of psychopomp Hermes, as is customary in such scenes. Just behind the Caryatids, ... «Greek Reporter, Oct 14»

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