helicon

Speech parts

1. helicon - Noun

2. Helicon - Proper noun

Meaning

A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bombardon parnassus clarion horn cornet bugle calliope poesy serpent poetics poetry brass deity trumpet baritone
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Hypernyms

tuba bass horn sousaphone

Related terms

helix helical

Anagrams

choline Nichole

Examples

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In 1998, the first helicon plasma experiment was performed at the ASPL. Source: Internet

In December 2006, AARC-Costa Rica performed its first plasma experiment on the VX-CR device, using helicon ionization of argon. Source: Internet

The helicon discharge used 30 kW of radio waves to turn argon gas into plasma. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

helicoidally helicoidization Helicolenus percoides heliconia heliconiaceous heliconian