double eagle
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A gold coin with a face value of $20 formerly used in the United States, the double of the US eagle coin.
American usage
noun
A representation of an eagle with two heads, as in the heraldic arms of Russia and Austria and in iconography from Antiquity onward (especially in the Roman Empire).
Example Sentences
- "When a legion pitched its camp, the eagle was placed in its centre; and if it happened that two legions encamped together, they erected upon the limits of the two camps a double eagle, with heads and wings opposed."
- "The black imperial double eagle is better known and still features on the Albanian national flag."
- "That the donors were members of the local Byzantine aristocracy is shown by the double eagle on one of the female donors' attire and demonstrates the continuation of artistic production by the Byzantine elite in Venetian Crete."
Usage
- American usage