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Meaning of "pythoness" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PYTHONESS

Phitonesse, ultimately from Greek PuthōnPython.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PYTHONESS

pythoness  [ˈpaɪθəˌnɛs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PYTHONESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pythoness 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 PYTHONESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pythoness in the English dictionary

The definition of pythoness in the dictionary is a woman, such as Apollo's priestess at Delphi, believed to be possessed by an oracular spirit. Other definition of pythoness is a female soothsayer.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PYTHONESS


albiness
ˈælbɪˌnɛs
bizarreness
bɪˈzɑːnɛs
blissfulness
ˈblɪsfʊlnɛs
bookishness
ˈbʊkɪʃnɛs
Caithness
keɪθˈnɛs
comprehensiveness
ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪvnɛs
dragoness
ˈdræɡənɛs
Dungeness
ˌdʌndʒəˈnɛs
evanesce
ˌɛvəˈnɛs
finesse
fɪˈnɛs
gentlenesse
ˈdʒɛntəlˌnɛs
Inverness
ˌɪnvəˈnɛs
Laxness
ˈlaxsnɛs
Lindesnes
ˈlɪndɪsˌnɛs
luminesce
ˌluːmɪˈnɛs
ness
nɛs
rejuvenesce
rɪˌdʒuːvəˈnɛs
Sheerness
ˌʃɪəˈnɛs
tyranness
ˈtaɪrəˌnɛs
villainess
ˈvɪlənɛs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PYTHONESS

pythium
pythogenic
python
Pythonesque
pythonic
pythonomorph
pyuria
pyx
pyx chest
pyxia
pyxides
pyxidia
Pyxidis
pyxidium
pyxie
pyxis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PYTHONESS

awareness
baroness
business
canoness
championess
darkness
deaconess
demoness
do the business
fitness
happiness
in the wilderness
lioness
marchioness
patroness
sextoness
thickness
tiredness
twoness
wellness

Synonyms and antonyms of pythoness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pythoness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PYTHONESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

pythoness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pitonisa
570 millions of speakers

English

pythoness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pythoness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pythoness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прорицательница
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pitonisa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pythoness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pythonisse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pythoness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pythoness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

巫女
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pythoness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pythoness
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cô đồng cô cốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pythoness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Pythoness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

falcı kadın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pythoness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pythoness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

віщунка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pythoness
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Πυθία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pythoness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pythoness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pythoness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pythoness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PYTHONESS»

The term «pythoness» is normally little used and occupies the 147.374 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PYTHONESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pythoness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pythoness» 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 pythoness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PYTHONESS»

Discover the use of pythoness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pythoness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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THE WORLD OF HORROTICA: DORMANT
... PORES SECRETING POISONOUS VENOM RUSHING WITHIN POISONED VEINS PUMPING VENOMOUS POISON POISONING VAN HELLSIN AWAKENING SOMETHING INSIDE PYTHONESS POSSESSED BY SOME DEMON DORMANT ...
David Edward Collier, 2013
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New Interpretations of American Literature
"A woman with the hair of a pythoness" is not, as one may first imagine, a Medusa with hair composed of wildly twining snakes. Once summoned up, however, the Medusa image does not dissipate entirely; it remains long enough to ensure the ...
Richard Fleming, Michael Payne, 1988
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Cyrus
So the Pythoness, as always, received the party warmly, even displaying a polite gratitude for the gifts and tribute of the Lydian king. Servants unloaded the huge wagons while, with a chill of apprehension which made him catch his breath so ...
David L. Rowlands, 2011
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The Delphic Oracle, Its Responses and Operations, with a ...
Writers on Greek religion and civilization still tell their readers essentially what Farnell told his in 1907: . . . the Pythoness ascended into the tripod, and, filled with the divine afflatus which at least the later ages believed to ascend in vapour from ...
Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, 1978
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Yeats and Theosophy
I would like to finish this project by returning to the Boston Pilot article in which Yeats makes the “pythoness” comment: “H. P. Blavatsky, the pythoness of the Movement, holds nightly levees at Lansdown Road. She is certainly a woman of great ...
Ken Monteith, 2014
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Once a Week
The writer with some perturbation inquired of the fragile Pythoness if all the persons assembled experienced the same manifestations, and if all saw alike. " No," was the answer, "the good and glorious spirits only show themselves to the good ...
Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1862
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Harper's Magazine
It is that in which Margrave refers to the Pythoness — ione of those virgins whom the priests of Delphi were accustomed to seek in their travels in Thrace or Thessaly, and employ to administer their oracles. These virgins were rare — a peculiar ...
‎1863
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
It is that in which Margrave refers to the Pythoness — one of those virgins whom the priests of Delphi were accustomed to seek in their travels in Thrace or Thessaly, and employ to administer their oracles. These virgins were rare — a peculiar ...
‎1863
9
Grimbolt
“I assume that Aphrodite has not allied herself to the Pythoness,” Alsenius began. Brother Lambent almost choked on a cake. “Allied to that demon?That perversion of all that is beautiful? That desecration of the act oflove?” “That's what we ...
Hugh Pendexter, III, 2012
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Mistress of Egypt
He informed her the Pythoness was away and he didn't know when she would re- turn. The priest also told her she should remain in line because some suppliants would leave if they had to wait a long time. Eurythemis walked back down to ...
Walt Engle, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PYTHONESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pythoness is used in the context of the following news items.
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REAL STORY OF THE NATIVE EUROPEANS
The oracle of the pythoness was due to realize itself in a way: History began as the white people stormed down, in multiple waves, and planted the good and the ... «Ancient Origins, Jun 15»
2
Vikings Season 3. Ragnar Lodbrok And Prophecies Throughout …
Pythia, the pythoness, spoke imprecisely (“If you cross the river, a great empire will be destroyed”), and Alexander was so dissatisfied with the vague statement ... «Yareah Magazine, Mar 15»
3
Pissed Off in Pursuit of Protest: A Conservative Chat with Lydia Lunch
Deep in the bowels of the SLUG dungeon, I had the bizarre pleasure of a tête-à-tête with no-wave pythoness Lydia Lunch, detailing her newest music ventures ... «SLUG Magazine, Dec 14»
4
Italy's Letta tipped to defeat Berlusconi challenge
Daniela Santanche, a hardline Berlusconi loyalist nicknamed "The Pythoness" for her hardline stances, offered her "head on a plate" in sacrifice if it would keep ... «Rappler, Oct 13»
5
Berlusconi's saucy new video
“It's ready, Berlusconi will decide when to broadcast it and I think it is absolutely imminent,” Daniela Santanche, a deputy nicknamed “the pythoness” … told a ... «ForexLive, Sep 13»
6
Berlusconi has video ready for fall of Italian government: ally
"It's ready, Berlusconi will decide when to broadcast it and I think it is absolutely imminent," Daniela Santanche, a deputy nicknamed "the pythoness" for her ... «Reuters, Sep 13»
7
15 Cultural Icons on the Pleasures of Coffee
... it wrings and twists the stomach for these juices, appealing as a pythoness appeals to her god; it brutalizes these beautiful stomach linings as a wagon master ... «Flavorwire, Jun 13»
8
Review: 'Sandeagozu', by Janann V. Jenner
Led by Sherahi (“tiger killer”), the giant pythoness, the band of odd fellows consists of her, Manu the langur, Dervish the coatimundi, Dutchess the scarlet macaw, ... «Flayrah, Jun 13»
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Episcopalian leader Schori bashes on St. Paul, opposition to …
How strange that Schori ignores the elephant—well, the demon—in the room: ἔχουσαν πνεῦμα πύθωνα ("having a Pythian spirit", or "a spirit of a pythoness"). «Catholic World Report, May 13»
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EXO-VATICANA
The trance-induced utterances of his priestesses known as Pythoness or Pythia prophesied in an unfamiliar voice thought to be that of Apollo himself. During the ... «NewsWithViews.com, Jan 13»

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