Definitions
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος (ouroboros, "tail-eating"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“code-name ouroboros - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson rambling about something or other since the 70s”
code-name ouroboros - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson
“Now, the ouroboros is a fairly common symbol from antiquity, so why a) Batman has never heard of it; and b) why he naturally assumes the biker dude has anything to do with the killings is never explained, but that's part of the fun - of course Meeks is involved in the bigger plot!”
“There is no end to this story, the worm ouroboros of consciousness.”
“His argumentation has always been a manifestation of the ouroboros.”
“Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in publications such as qarrtsiluni, MAYDAY, ouroboros review, Mankind Magazine, Spoonful, and The Birmingham Arts Journal.”
“Here's my own immodest architectural proposal: each borough needs an architectural ouroboros.”
The Huffington Post: Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?
“The ouroboros snake of architecture, that's been chasing form with function and function with form, is once again shedding its skin.”
The Huffington Post: Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?
“His writing has been published by qarrtsiluni, Thirteen Myna Birds, ouroboros review, Bolts of Silk, a handful of stones, The Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing and Good Gosh Almighty!”
“So the demigoddess actually brings all the bad guys back to life, and the last page of the book literally returns to the first page--hence the ouroboros.”
“This is symbolized in his ouroboros ring this ring, once mentioned, will have no further importance to the story.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ouroboros’.
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phrontistery - o
from phrontistery.info
ozostomia, ozoniferous, oxytone, oxytocic, oxyphonia, oxymoron, oxygeusia, oxyblepsia, oxyacanthous, oxter, oxyacaesthesia, owling and 504 more...
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Mythical Beings
mermaid, manticore, fairy, brownie, dwarf, elf, leprechaun, selkie, gremlin, puck, pixie, genie and 97 more...
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Pesky
Pesky pronunciations
perspicacious, carminative, eleemosynary, katzenjammer, cognomen, xanthin, weltanschauung, wahrheitssensible..., entropic doom, dietrologia, lontanaza, überrNoch and 22 more...
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Dash's list
Words of interest.
cacogen, fricatrice, destrier, swoon, multiverse, haggard, entranced, entheogen, passionate, ascendant, conciliator, bandylegged and 34 more...
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words adored
quisling, bellicose, fungible, mumpsimus, ouroboros, aleatoric, sophistry, gorgonize, gasconade, tintinnabulation, cabalistic, ear-kissing and 2 more...
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ancient signs
ouroboros, calypso, la sirene, Medusa, chthonic, aureole, colophon, succubus, peri, homunculus, zephyr, numinous and 56 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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gerwitz's Words
erudite, autodidactic, callipygian, ouroboros, zounds, fie, wabi, sabi, gedankenexperiment, zeitgeist, eliminativism, aether and 157 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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bosporian's Words
corybantiasm, delphic, oneiromancy, bibliothecary, wyrd, lygophilia, cimmerian, agathodaemon, crepuscular, ignosis, peisithanatos, alpenglow and 94 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ouroboros.
cxkang always liked this symbol, this image. was it used in conan the barbarian?--king thalsadoom's 'logo'
I think Schwarznegger spoke three or four words in that film. Apr 22, 2009
treeseed "The Ouroboros, also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality, unity, or infinity. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations. More recently, it has been interpreted by psychologists, such as Carl Jung, as having an archetypical significance to the human psyche."
_Wikipedia Jan 25, 2008
seanahan A couple years ago I was ONE letter away from making this word in Scrabble. Nov 22, 2007
papageno Click here: ouroboros. Nov 21, 2007