Explore Phrygian through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like inhabitant or habitant. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Phrygian meaning
- Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
- Written or spoken in the Phrygian language.
- In the Phrygian mode.
Synonyms of Phrygian
Using Phrygian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture. | Written or spoken in the Phrygian language. | In the Phrygian mode.
- Useful related words include: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen.
- In the example corpus, phrygian often appears in combinations such as: the phrygian, phrygian mode, phrygian cap.
Context around Phrygian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Phrygian
- In this selection, "phrygian" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, iii, info, thraco, mode, cap and iii stand out and add context to how "phrygian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a phrygian princess and associated with phrygian word meaning. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "phrygian" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with phrygian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Much Flamenco music is in the Phrygian mode. (8 words)
The example of the Phrygian Quintus, who actively sought out martyrdom, is repudiated. (13 words)
The name is associated with Phrygian word meaning "mother earth" and the old Bulgarian “Землia” (Earth). (16 words)
The centre-piece is Mithras clothed in Anatolian costume and wearing a Phrygian cap ; who is kneeling on the exhausted Clauss, M., The Roman cult of Mithras, p. 77. bull, holding it by the nostrils with his left hand, and stabbing it with his right. (45 words)
On 20 June 1792, "a mob of terrifying aspect" broke into the Tuileries, made the king wear the bonnet rouge (red Phrygian cap) to show his loyalty to the Republic, insulted Marie Antoinette, accusing her of betraying France, and threatened her life. (42 words)
Bad roads resembling an empty field leading to the Phrygian Valley in Eskişehir and the insufficiency of direction signs, which are already broken, are the major downsides of the region, repelling visitors from coming to the region. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Phrygian (III) Phrygian mode on E About this sound Play ( help · info ) Phrygian is the third mode.
Bad roads resembling an empty field leading to the Phrygian Valley in Eskişehir and the insufficiency of direction signs, which are already broken, are the major downsides of the region, repelling visitors from coming to the region.
Anatolia * Cybele : Her Hittite name was Kubaba, but her name changed to Cybele in Phrygian and Roman culture.
An example is Scarlatti's use of the Phrygian mode and other tonal inflections more or less alien to European art music.
By that time, the populations were a mixture of the ancient Anatolian or " Syro-Hittite " substrate and post-Bronze-Age-collapse "Thraco-Phrygian" and more recent Greco-Macedonian incursions.
Dorian is the same as minor mode except with a major sixth, and Phrygian mode is the same as minor mode except with a minor second.
He is overcome by her beauty, believing that she is a goddess, but Aphrodite identifies herself as a Phrygian princess.
He sees iconographic and mythological parallels between the two figures: both are young heroes, carry a dagger and wear a Phrygian cap.
If the final is approached from below, then the leading tone must be raised in a minor key (Dorian, Hypodorian, Aeolian, Hypoaeolian), but not in Phrygian or Hypophrygian mode.
In Phrygian tradition, King Midas was venerated as the founder of Ancyra, but Pausanias mentions that the city was actually far older, which accords with present archaeological knowledge.
Much Flamenco music is in the Phrygian mode.
On 20 June 1792, "a mob of terrifying aspect" broke into the Tuileries, made the king wear the bonnet rouge (red Phrygian cap) to show his loyalty to the Republic, insulted Marie Antoinette, accusing her of betraying France, and threatened her life.
Tertullian, De Corona Militis, 15.3 History and development Mithras before the Mysteries Mithras-Helios, in Phrygian cap with solar rays, with Antiochus I of Commagene.
The better known is a Phrygian mode tune from the Roman liturgy, and the other is from the Mozarabic liturgy from Spain.
The bottom of the vase was a cameo glass disc, also in blue and white, showing a head, presumed to be of Paris or Priam on the basis of the Phrygian cap it wears.
The centre-piece is Mithras clothed in Anatolian costume and wearing a Phrygian cap ; who is kneeling on the exhausted Clauss, M., The Roman cult of Mithras, p. 77. bull, holding it by the nostrils with his left hand, and stabbing it with his right.
The example composed of natural notes starts on E: The Phrygian mode is very similar to the modern natural minor scale (see Aeolian mode below).
The example of the Phrygian Quintus, who actively sought out martyrdom, is repudiated.
The Ides was the day of Canna intrat ("The Reed enters"), when Attis was born and exposed as an infant among the reeds of a Phrygian river.
The name is associated with Phrygian word meaning "mother earth" and the old Bulgarian “Землia” (Earth).
Common combinations with phrygian
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the phrygian 9×
- phrygian mode 7×
- phrygian cap 5×
- in phrygian 4×