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ˈhɛl ənhe·len
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Princeton's WordNet
Helen, Helen of Troynoun
(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War
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Helennoun
Helen of Troy, a famous beauty in classical Greek legend.
Helennoun
the daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.
Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
Helennoun
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
"Is her name Ellen or Helen, Miss Viner? I thought - "
Etymology: From Ἑλένη, possibly connected with ἥλιος.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Helen
the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; the most beautiful of women, who was carried off to Troy by Paris, to revenge whose abduction the princes of Greece, who had pledged themselves to protect her, made war on Troy, a war which lasted ten years.
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Rank popularity for the word 'Helen' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3718
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Rank popularity for the word 'Helen' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2505
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Helen in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Helen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Helen in a Sentence
I love Helen Prejean.
Unfortunately, the snakes preferred exit point was blocked after being spooked by Helen sitting down, and it lashed out in fear.
They were hiring all kinds of actors who were down on their luck, they paid them not even minimum wage — below minimum… I didn’t have any lines, but they wanted all kinds of actors… and you worked with all these swell people, like Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset and Helen Hayes.
For Helen Glover, Helen Glover was looking after three kids. For me, I was working in a hospital a year ago today, i don't think there's many people in the Olympic athlete setup that can say these things and be in a final.
Most of the curses are what we call binding spells: they aim at binding or inhibiting the performance of a rival. A lot of them have to do with legal cases. They say things like, Bind the tongue and the thoughts of so-and-so, who is about to testify against me on Monday, we have some that are aimed at rival musicians or actors, and a couple that seem to be connected with athletics. We have some that run something like this, Bind Helen, so that she is unsuccessful when she flirts or makes love with Demetrius. But the great majority of them seem to be connected with lawsuits.
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