name
Meaning 1
Synonym of the Pentagon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, derogatory
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: the Pentagon
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pentagram
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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pĕn′tə-grăm′
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/ˈpɛn.təˌɡɹæm/
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rhymes with -ɛntəɡɹæm
noun
Meaning 2
The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pentacle, pentangle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: star
History
Etymology
From the shape of the star, symbolizing Satanism.
From Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon), noun form of the adjectives πεντάγραμμος (pentágrammos) and πεντέγραμμος (pentégrammos, “five-lined, having five lines”). Equivalent to penta- + -gram.
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Armenian: հնգագիծ (hngagic) — shape of five-pointed star
- Azerbaijani: pentaqramma — shape of five-pointed star
- Basque: pentagrama — shape of five-pointed star
- Bulgarian: пентаграм (pentagram) — shape of five-pointed star
- Bulgarian: пентаграма (pentagrama) — shape of five-pointed star
- Catalan: pentagrama — shape of five-pointed star
- Chinese Cantonese: 五角星 (ng5 gok3 sing1) — shape of five-pointed star
- Chinese Mandarin: 五角星 (wǔjiǎoxīng) — shape of five-pointed star
- Chuvash: пентаграмма (pent̬agramma) — shape of five-pointed star
- Czech: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Danish: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Dutch: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Esperanto: pentagramo — shape of five-pointed star
- Estonian: pentagramm — shape of five-pointed star
- Finnish: pentagrammi — shape of five-pointed star
- Finnish: viisikanta — shape of five-pointed star
- French: pentagramme — shape of five-pointed star
- Friulian: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Galician: pentagrama — shape of five-pointed star
- Georgian: პენტაგრამა (ṗenṭagrama) — shape of five-pointed star
- German: Pentagramm — shape of five-pointed star
- Hebrew: פֶּנְטַגְרָם (pentagram) — shape of five-pointed star
- Hindi: पंचरेखा (pañcrekhā) — shape of five-pointed star
- Hungarian: pentagramma — shape of five-pointed star
- Hungarian: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Icelandic: fimmstirningur — shape of five-pointed star
- Icelandic: reglulegur fimmstirningur — shape of five-pointed star
- Ido: pentagramo — shape of five-pointed star
- Indonesian: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Irish: peinteagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Italian: pentagramma — shape of five-pointed star
- Japanese: 五芒星 (gobōsei) — shape of five-pointed star
- Kazakh: пентаграмма (pentagramma) — shape of five-pointed star
- Kazakh: жұлдызды бесбұрыш (jūldyzdy besbūryş) — shape of five-pointed star
- Korean: 오각성 (ogakseong) — shape of five-pointed star
- Korean: 오각별 (ogakbyeol) — shape of five-pointed star
- Korean: 오망성 (omangseong) — shape of five-pointed star
- Korean: 펜타그램 (pentageuraem) — shape of five-pointed star
- Latin: pentagrammum — shape of five-pointed star
- Latvian: pentagramma — shape of five-pointed star
- Lithuanian: pentagrama — shape of five-pointed star
- Norwegian Bokmål: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Norwegian Nynorsk: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Polish: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Polish: gwiazda pitagorejska — shape of five-pointed star
- Portuguese: pentagrama — shape of five-pointed star
- Romanian: pentagramă — shape of five-pointed star
- Russian: пентагра́мма (pentagrámma) — shape of five-pointed star
- Serbo-Croatian: пе̏нтаграм — shape of five-pointed star
- Serbo-Croatian: pȅntagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Slovak: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Slovene: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Spanish: pentagrama — shape of five-pointed star
- Swedish: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Tamil: பெண்டகிராம் (peṇṭakirām) — shape of five-pointed star
- Tibetan: སྐར་མ་ཟུར་ལྡ (skar ma zur lda) — shape of five-pointed star
- Turkish: pentagram — shape of five-pointed star
- Ukrainian: пентагра́ма (pentahráma) — shape of five-pointed star
- Uzbek: pentagramma — shape of five-pointed star
- Zazaki: pencagram — shape of five-pointed star