Excalibur
/ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/
Excalibur proper noun: the legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
Proper noun
Excalibur (plural Excaliburs)
- The legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
- Until recently, suppression of ethnicity has perhaps been the leading characteristic of the trend of thought of these Jewish intellectuals. Some, like Noam Chomsky and I. F. Stone, have been considered by some Jews to be so suppressed—or at least so overcompensating for their being Jewish—as to be...1974, Stephen D. Isaacs, Jews and American Politics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 53
- And we would see fish swimming among the tall bulrushes that rose like Excaliburs out of the lake.1998, Imogen Stubbs, “The Undiscovered Road: Northumberland”, in Dea Birkett, Sara Wheeler, editors, Amazonian: The Penguin Book of Women’s New Travel Writing, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 228
Excalibur meaning in Marathi, Arabic and Thai
Excalibur in Marathi
- Legendary sword
- एक्सकॅलिबर eksakĕlibar
Excalibur in Arabic
- Legendary sword
- إِكْسْكَالِيبُر ʔikskālībur
Excalibur in Thai
- Legendary sword
- ดาบเอ็กซ์คาลิเบอร์ dàap èkkaalíber, เอกซ์แคลิเบอร์ èkkaalíber
Examples of Excalibur in a sentence
- Such men flaunt their universalism like Excaliburs of truth and objectivity.1974, Stephen D. Isaacs, Jews and American Politics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 53:
- You and I, we are not alone, and our screwdrivers are our flashing Excaliburs as we sally forth to make small parts of the fragmented world whole again.2017, James May, The Reassembler, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 19:
Forms of Excalibur
| plural | Excaliburs |
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Origin of Excalibur
From Middle English Excalaber, from Old French Escalibor, Escaliborc, prothetic form of Calliborc, alteration of Calibourne, from Medieval Latin Caliburnus (Geoffrey of Monmouth, ca. 1136), influenced by calibs (“steel”) (for chalybs), alteration of Old Welsh Caledbulch (compare modern Caledfwlch), compound of caled (“hard”) and bwlch (“cleft, crack”). Related to the Irish legendary sword Caladbolg, literally ‘hard-belly’, i.e. ‘voracious’.
Questions about Excalibur
- What does Excalibur mean?
- Excalibur means the legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
- What is Excalibur in Marathi?
- Excalibur in Marathi is एक्सकॅलिबर (eksakĕlibar). See Excalibur meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use Excalibur in a sentence?
- Such men flaunt their universalism like Excaliburs of truth and objectivity.
- What part of speech is Excalibur?
- Excalibur is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Excalibur?
- Excalibur is pronounced /ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/.
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