starlore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Even when primitive races tried to advance a step beyond their rude starlore into astronomy, and divided the year into 360 days, and the month into 30 days, inventing a week of five days, six of which made a month, and seventy-two a year, [...]"
- "In German starlore, the small star just above the middle one in the shaft of Charles's Wain, is a wagoner, who, having given our Saviour a lift, was offered the kingdom of heaven for his reward, but who said he would sooner be driving from east to west to all eternity, and whose desire was granted."
- "Now on his son's birthday feast there came unto the king some five and fifty chosen men, schooled in the starlore of the Chaldaeans."
- "Presumably, it was access to this manuscript that explains the differences between the 1857 and 1861 papers, the later one expanding the 1857 account of Boorong starlore to include a general survey of central Victorian Aboriginal culture."