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phrygian

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for phrygian.

Editorial note

They allegedly patterned this on the Phrygian mysteries of a spontaneous original being that was likened to a tumor springing into existence.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of phrygian gathered in one view.

noun

A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.

noun

The language of the Phrygian people.

noun

A Montanist.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for phrygian.

noun

A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.

noun

The language of the Phrygian people.

noun

A Montanist.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Phrygian, in the musical sense [A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.]

Example sentences

1

They allegedly patterned this on the Phrygian mysteries of a spontaneous original being that was likened to a tumor springing into existence.

2

They are not the grizzly parisian of 1789 in a Phrygian cap.

3

Yeah I played that in C phrygian, doubled 3rd voicing, all handled by the device.

4

The article does state that the Smurfs and the French got the wrong hat and that it's supposed to be a conical pileus rather than the crooked phrygian.

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That’s still arguably a classic Phrygian cap design.

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The smurf hats are clearly wearing Phrygian caps.

7

I'm proud that I managed to guess it, it's a Phrygian cap.

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Furthermore, Lydian and Phrygian are not mutual reflections.

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For psytrance many of the sequences are sparse, have subtle glissando and slides, in phrygian, hungarian minor and other exotic scales with canonical forms and contrapuntal rounds often achieved by shifting subsequences a few steps forward or backward.

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I happen to particularly like the Phrygian mode, but tend to just play things in E Major when I'm trying out ideas and then transpose afterwards, because as long as I'm playing on the white keys and remember what the root is I literally can't hit a wrong note.

11

For instance if you take a C major scale pattern laid out somewhere on the first four strings of the guitar (we avoid the inconsistency of the G to B string being a major third) and you rotate it 180, you get a Phrygian pattern: Ionian: -*---*-*- -*-*---*- ---*---*- Phrygian: -*---*--- -*---*-*- -*-*---*- The intervals are different in this mesh but the rotation inverts them the same way.

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While for Thracian there has been some small recent progress and it seems that it might have been more closely related to Phrygian and Greek than previously believed, for Dacian it is unlikely that there will be any future discovery of inscriptions that could provide extra information.

Quote examples

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In that story he's captive in Egypt for 7 years until "a certain Phrygian" shows up.

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He hangs out in Egypt for 7 years until "a certain Phrygian" shows up and tries to ransom him to Libya.

3

Or maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe and associated with elves, fairies and various other wee folk?

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I'm already deluged with nešili texts of the "Triple your barley yields with this one weird trick" type or, "Phrygian raiders don't want you to know this secret".

Proper noun examples

1

Eventually they uttered a word ('bekos') that was deemed to be Phrygian.

2

For example, you can pick C major scale and it will have exactly the same notes as G Mixolydian or you can pick E Phrygian.

3

After the switch it was easy to see that major scale and all it's modes(Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian...) and all the keys where the same shape moving around.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use phrygian in a sentence?

They allegedly patterned this on the Phrygian mysteries of a spontaneous original being that was likened to a tumor springing into existence.

What does phrygian mean?

A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.

What part of speech is phrygian?

phrygian is commonly used as noun.