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PRONUNCIATION OF THISBE

Thisbe  [ˈθɪzbɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THISBE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thisbe 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 THISBE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Thisbe

Pyramus and Thisbe

Pyramus and Thisbē are a pair of ill-fated lovers whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The story has since been retold by many authors.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THISBE


busby
ˈbʌzbɪ
Catesby
ˈkeɪtzbɪ
Crosby
ˈkrɒzbɪ
Grimsby
ˈɡrɪmzbɪ
mazhbi
ˈmæzbɪ
Naseby
ˈneɪzbɪ
rudesby
ˈruːdzbɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THISBE

Thirty Years´ War
Thirty-nine Articles
thirty-second note
Thirty-Share Index
thirty-three
thirty-twomo
thirtyfold
thirtyish
thirtysomething
Thiruvananthapuram

WORDS THAT END LIKE THISBE

adobe
as the case may be
babe
be
cube
debe
describe
escribe
globe
maybe
probe
Pyramus and Thisbe
sabe
subscribe
the globe
the powers that be
tube
unsubscribe
would-be
YouTube

Synonyms and antonyms of Thisbe in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Thisbe» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THISBE

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

Translator English - Chinese

也是一道
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Tisbe
570 millions of speakers

English

Thisbe
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Thisbe
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Thisbe
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Фисба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Tisbe
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Thisbe
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Thisbé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ini
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Thisbe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ティスベ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Thisbe
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Iki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Thisbe
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Thisbe
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेच
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Thisbe
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Tisbe
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Thisbe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Фісба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Thisbe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Θίσβη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Thisbe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Thisbe
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Thisbe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Thisbe

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THISBE»

The term «Thisbe» is regularly used and occupies the 74.164 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THISBE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THISBE»

Discover the use of Thisbe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Thisbe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Osprey Island
Thisbe Nissen. z- // _ ( 11://r/In AN EYRIE OF OSPREY What is a bird family? In life, a bird family is exactly like a human family. It consists of father, mother, and children. But in the books a family means quite another thing. —OLIVE TI-IORNE  ...
Thisbe Nissen, 2007
2
Latin Via Ovid: A First Course
Pyramus iuvenis pulcherrimus et Thisbe virgo formosissima domos viclnas tenuerunt. Amantes erant, et amor tempore crevit. Parentes amSrem iuvenum prohiberc temptaverunt. Sed amor viam facit. Fissum erat in pariete domuum quod1 ...
Norma Goldman, 1982
3
Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies
Pyramus, believing Thisbe to be dead, was overcome with grief and stabbed himself with his sword. Thisbe asked him to wait for her and then plunged the sword into her heart. So, they died together. William Shakespeare's play Romeo and ...
Struik Publishers, Janet Parker, Alice Mills, Julie Stanton, 2007
4
Essentials of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Concise yet complete, this is a succinct introduction to the topic, covering both basic chemistry as well as such advanced topics as high-throughput analytics and glycomics -- in one handy volume.
Thisbe K. Lindhorst, 2007
5
Pyramus and Thisbe
Stephen . I confess there is some virtue in it.
Henry James, 2010
6
Nicolas Poussin: Dialectics of Painting
6. Landscape. with. Py. ramus. and. Thisbe,. 1651. Reversing. the. Order. of. Things. Having struggled to complete the second series of the Sacraments, Nicolas Poussin wrote a letter to his friend and patron Paul Freart de Chantelou ...
Oskar Batschmann, 1999
7
Shakespeare Survey
u It was Kenneth Muir who assembled the significant evidence.33 He saw this as Shakespeare's use of a number of words that are distinctive to Golding; 'cranny' for the fissure in the wall separating the lovers, Thisbe's 'tarrying' beneath the ...
Stanley Wells, 2002
8
Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems
Like so many stories in Ovid, Pyramus and Thisbe offers an explanation for a phenomenon in nature - in this case how the mulberry became red (Met.'w.y- 2). They were the most handsome couple in the Orient, and they lived in Babylon, city of ...
A. B. Taylor, 2000
9
Classical Mythology & More: A Reader Workbook
Pyramus and Thisbe lived in ancient Babylon. Pyramus was the most beautiful young man in the city; Thisbe was the most beautiful young woman. They lived next door to each other and had been in love for years, but their families hated each ...
Marianthe Colakis, Mary Joan Masello, 2007
10
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in ...
... 1881, Compton, England, Watts Gallery Séon, Alexandre, The Lamentation of Orpheus, 1896, Paris, Musée d'Orsay Cox, Jan, The Second Loss of Eurydice, before 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts Pyramus and Thisbe ...
Helene E. Roberts, 2013

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THISBE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Thisbe is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It), Dmitry Krymov Lab …
But what the febrile imagination of Russian theatre surrealist Dmitry Krymov gives us is the rude mechanicals' Very Lamentable Comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe, ... «The Arts Desk, Nov 14»
2
OPL Children's Theater puts on 'The Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe'
“The Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe,” performed Aug. 8 at 4 p.m.at the First Presbyterian Church auditorium, depends on masks for costumes, as shown here by ... «Madison County Courier, Aug 13»
3
Thisbe OK, but not great
Until the very end, that is, when they miraculously surface during the staging of “Pyramus and Thisbe.” The pace slows down, and both the jokes and melancholy ... «New York Post, Apr 12»

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