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Meaning of "Sapphic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SAPPHIC

Sapphic  [ˈsæfɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAPPHIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sapphic can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SAPPHIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sapphic

Sapphic can refer to: ▪ Related to Sappho, a 7th-century BC poet ▪ Sapphic stanza, a four line poetic form ▪ Sapphic love, related to female homosexuality...

Definition of Sapphic in the English dictionary

The first definition of Sapphic in the dictionary is denoting a metre associated with Sappho, consisting generally of a trochaic pentameter line with a dactyl in the third foot. Other definition of Sapphic is of or relating to Sappho or her poetry. Sapphic is also lesbian.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SAPPHIC


bibliographic
ˌbɪblɪəʊˈɡræfɪk
chromatographic
ˌkrəʊmətəˈɡræfɪk
crystallographic
ˌkrɪstələʊˈɡræfɪk
demographic
ˌdɛməˈɡræfɪk
edaphic
ɪˈdæfɪk
electrocardiographic
ɪˌlektrəʊˌkɑ:dɪəʊˈɡræfɪk
ethnographic
ˌɛθnəˈɡræfɪk
graphic
ˈɡræfɪk
holographic
ˌhɒləˈɡræfɪk
hydrographic
ˌhaɪdrəˈɡræfɪk
iconographic
aɪˌkɒnəˈɡræfɪk
orthographic
ˌɔːθəʊˈɡræfɪk
phonographic
ˌfəʊnəˈɡræfɪk
photographic
ˌfəʊtəˈɡræfɪk
pornographic
ˌpɔːnəˈɡræfɪk
radiographic
ˌreɪdɪəʊˈɡræfɪk
reprographic
ˌriːprəˈɡræfɪk
topographic
ˌtɒpəˈɡræfɪk
traffic
ˈtræfɪk
typographic
ˌtaɪpəˈɡræfɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAPPHIC

Sapphic ode
Sapphira
sapphire
sapphired
sapphirine
sapphism
sapphist
Sappho
sappier
sappiest
sappily
sappiness
sapping
sapple
Sapporo

WORDS THAT END LIKE SAPPHIC

anamorphic
anthropomorphic
autobiographic
autotrophic
biographic
catastrophic
cryptographic
dimorphic
eutrophic
geographic
heterotrophic
metamorphic
photolithographic
physiographic
pleomorphic
polymorphic
stenographic
stratigraphic
telegraphic
trophic

Synonyms and antonyms of Sapphic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Sapphic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAPPHIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

萨福
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sáfica
570 millions of speakers

English

Sapphic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सैफो
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Sapphic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Sapphic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sáfica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্যাফিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

saphique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sapphic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sapphic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同性愛の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Sapphic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sapphic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sapphic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Sapphic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सॅफीक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şair Safo ile ilgili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sapphic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Sapphic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Sapphic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Safic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sapphic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Sapphic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sapphic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Sapphic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Sapphic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAPPHIC»

The term «Sapphic» is quite widely used and occupies the 41.935 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SAPPHIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAPPHIC»

Discover the use of Sapphic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Sapphic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying in
The first book-length feminist analysis of Eileen Gray's work, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In argues that Gray's unusual architecture and design-as well as its history of abuse and neglect-resulted from her ...
Jasmine Rault, Eileen Gray, 2011
2
H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950
A radical revision of the politics of gender and sexuality in writing of the early twentieth century.
Diana Collecott, 1999
3
Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity
This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"?Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du rêve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)?that engage, ...
Erin G. Carlston, 1998
4
Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women and National Culture
inconclusiveness may enrich our understanding of sapphic modernity: “instead of charting lesbianism's 'visibility' or lamenting its invisibility, we might consider hermeneutic, epistemological, and functional questions about lesbianism's ...
Laura Doan, Jane Garrity, 2006
5
Dangerous intimacies: toward a sapphic history of the ...
In revealing the struggle over sapphism at the heart of these novels of female friendship-and at the heart of Englandrs"s national identity-Moore shows how feminine sexual agency emerged as an important cultural force in post-Enlightenment ...
Lisa Lynne Moore, 1997
6
Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
Sex, Violence, and American Modernity Lisa Duggan. APPENDIX A HYPOTHETICAL CASE. Facts and Questions Presented by Counsel To Expert Physicians. Alice J. Mitchell is the youngest child of George Mitchell and Isabella Mitchell, and ...
Lisa Duggan, 2000
7
Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class, and ...
I discuss texts by Schreiner, Woolf, Warner, and Cather as examples of a literary phenomenon I am calling Sapphic primitivism, a mode of writing in which figurations of blackness and working- class culture appear as constitutive elements of ...
Robin Hackett, 2004
8
The Sapphic odes of Horace, tr. into nearly corresponding ...
PREFACE. The prose translation of the works of Horace by Christopher Smart, and that in verse by Dr. Francis, are both faithful and good ; and it is not the aim of the writer of the following pages to interfere with the standard authority of those ...
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 1845
9
Haunted Hearths & Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories
Lesbian Ghost Stories Catherine Lundoff. swagger, and they click across the floor like gunshots. I do love to make a good entrance. The tour starts out like all the others. The audience hangs on my every word, and every sentence is designed ...
Catherine Lundoff, 2008
10
Clit notes: a Sapphic sampler
An Obie award-winning performance artist and playwright takes readers on a personal tour of controversial arenas across America, where she "scrapes away decades of encrusted decorum from a subject (female sexuality) that is too often ...
Holly Hughes, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAPPHIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Sapphic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Yael Stone on Orange is the New Black: 'I wasn't Sapphic enough to …
Yael Stone on Orange is the New Black: 'I wasn't Sapphic enough to play Nicky' .... Word came back: “I wasn't tough enough, I wasn't Sapphic enough. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Susan Lanser finds the Sapphic in history
Susan S Lanser: Sapphic is a wide umbrella for female intimacies, as I use the word. I also agree with Martha Vicinus and other theorists who argue that ... «Daily Xtra, Jun 15»
3
The Dinah Vegas diaries: Sin City turns sapphic
25,000 gay girls recently descended on Las Vegas for a weekend of fun and frolics – here, journalist Lauren Jow proves what happens in Vegas certainly ... «Gay Star News, May 15»
4
Empire Tackles The Music Industry's Gay Double Standard
Eldest Lyon brother Andre tries to use this sapphic tidbit to his advantage, so he and his scheming wife upload a video of the two ladies loving each other to ... «Out Magazine, Feb 15»
5
Concert preview: Sapphic provides a bleak soundtrack to winter
These words could form the bleak backbone of gothic Grand Rapids post-punk crew Sapphic, which borrowed its name from the poet and inherited its darkened ... «Columbus Alive, Jan 15»
6
Ellen Degeneres Watch
The first is that the house has an overwhelming, and most likely ancient, sapphic power that draws all lesbians to it. Think Ellen DeGeneres in a long black robe ... «Curbed Chicago, Dec 14»
7
The Sapphic Tyrant Of Houston Endangers Civil Rights
Tavis Smiley raised a lot of eyebrows this weekend when he spoke on ABC-TV's “This Week” news show, hosted by George Stephanopoulos. Smiley pointed to ... «Daily Caller, Oct 14»
8
Susan Sarandon suits up for a 31st anniversary screening of The …
Susan Sarandon suited up for a 31st anniversary screening of her sapphic vampire flick The Hunger at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday. «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
9
Eric Banks: Sapphic poems inspire song cycle for Kitka
Choral composer Eric Banks studied Russian while getting his music degree at Yale and was no stranger to Russian poetry. But he had never heard of Sophia ... «SFGate, Jun 14»
10
Soap stars get Sapphic in web series 'Beacon Hill'
Actress Crystal Chappell has portrayed a handful of daytime television's most beloved leading ladies, from Carly Manning on Days of our Lives (1990 to 2012), ... «Windy City Times, May 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sapphic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sapphic>. May 2024 ».
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