Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sea-monster; a sea-horse.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, rare, mythology A sea-horse or hippocampus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A fabulous sea monster.
Etymologies
- By confusion with hippotame. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hippodame’.
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Horse of a different color
Hippeastrum, Hippocras Wine, Hippocrates, hippa, Bizerte, hippocampe, Hippios, Equuleus, Equus scotti, hippiƤinen, equus grevyi, Equus ferus and 54 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Fabulous Creatures
Inspired by a Twitter exchange between Kory Stamper and other lexicographers about mythical beings with "fabulous" in their definitions.
mamuque, hippocampus, hippodame, hippogriff, kraken, cockatrice, griffin, centaur, chichevache, hippocentaur, hircocerf, tragelaphus and 40 more...
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Words of this December
I have just discovered this website, and have just delved once more into the exciting world of highly specific or nice-sounding words. This will be chock full of the best ones I discover this month.
splanchnic, adumbrate, sacrilicious, simulacrum, nacreous, concupiscence, cryptomnesia, obdormition, susurrous, vorpal, corybantic, sesquipedalian and 16 more...
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Legendary Creatures of the Sea
And other bodies of water.
sea god, sea-goddess, Neptune, Amphitrite, Triton, Nereus, Oceanus, Proteus, Tethys, Doris, Manannan, manawydan and 51 more...
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