Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A leader; a chief; specifically, the head or chief pupil of a class or division in some public schools.
- n. In music, the subject or theme of a fugue: distinguished from the comes or answer.
Wiktionary
- n. UK The top academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.
- n. historical A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
- n. music The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the answer being called the
comes , or companion.
Etymologies
- Borrowed from Latin dux ("leader"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By comparison, the mantle of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to attain more than 2.25 metres.”
“Tacitus [103] styles Vespasian dux, which is not a strictly official title, but exactly describes his actual duty.”
“Byzantium, Gaeta had then, like Naples and Amalfi, a republican form of government under a "dux" or lord.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“A Duke is a "dux" or "leader;" the flying wedge of cranes is under a "ducal monarch" -- a very different personage from a queen bee.”
“from someone considered a dictator" - hehe. yes, there's so much malignity in italy, poor mussolini. and people have always ignored that "dux" was referred to his horse ... well friends - do you need a joke teller to revive some events or enlighten some party? we have a prime minister available. in tour now, great success in paris.”
“Grab the dux and dawg at noon and head for the houseboat and the Propane fireplace.”
Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey)
“Tom Compson Trumble went to school at Brighton Grammar School, metriculated at the very early age of sixteen, and was dux of the school.”
“Scolese would be Griffin re-dux: the self-absorbed "I'm the smartest guy in the room" technical type, except more Machiavellian with less hard technical skill.”
Who's the boss? For now Christopher Scolese, Sort of - NASA Watch
“In the Apologus to his translation of Plato's De regno, dedicated to Montefeltro on 6 January 1482, Marsilio Ficino plays on the duke's name, describing in a witticism that Federico was known as "a fide regia fideregum" and "ab orbis imperio Orbinatem ducem" by superior intelligences and as "Federicus Urbinas dux" by men. 137”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“To some ancient observers such women epitomized an aberrant category of female described in Roman literature as a dux femina a woman general, an oxymoron of a title that implied an unnatural combination of male and female characteristics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dux’.
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones. Aún faltan algunas por encontrar.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch se consideran com...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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Latinate
lorem ipsum, citius, altius, fortius, curriculum vitae, bona fide, terra nullius, habeas corpus, quidnunc, voir dire, emeritus, quincunx and 99 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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Léxico de Scrabble Avanzado
Lista de palabras útiles, raras o esotéricas en Español recopiladas de partidas ordinarias de Scrabble y agrupadas para tu placer.
Todas las palabras se encuentran en el DRAE.
<...acocarse, ahelear, helear, pirulo, apirularse, sapirulo, pingar, mugar, her, dino, coquee, otri and 616 more...
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