pentagram

[ pen-tuh-gram ]

/ ˈpɛn təˌgræm /

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noun

a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.

Also called pentacle, pentangle, pentalpha.

Origin of pentagram

From the Greek word pentágrammon, dating back to 1825–35. See penta-, -gram¹

OTHER WORDS FROM pentagram

pen·ta·gram·mat·ic

[pen-tuh-gruh-mat-ik] /ˈpɛn tə grəˈmæt ɪk/, adjective

Words nearby pentagram

pentagon, pentagon papers, pentagonal dodecahedron, pentagonese, pentagonoid, pentagram, pentahedron, pentahydrate, pentahydric, pentahydroxy, pentalpha

Example sentences from the Web for pentagram

One of those men was Jake Ferguson—a drugged-out ex-criminal with natty dreadlocks and a pentagram tattooed on his forehead.

Eco-Terrorism Documentary Incites Debate |Marlow Stern |June 26, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Then he calls a rat to gnaw a gap in the pentagram, and escapes.

The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' |H. B. Cotterill
By producing each side of this latter figure the five-pointed star (fig. 9), known as the pentagram, is obtained.

Bygone Beliefs |H. Stanley Redgrove
Pentagram, pen′ta-gram, n. a five-pointed star: a magic figure so called.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) |Various

For you the circle has not been traced nor the pentagram fixed, for you no law has been thrust down.

The Thing from the Lake |Eleanor M. Ingram
It was to the Pentagram Circle that I first broached the new conceptions that were developing in my mind.

The New Machiavelli |Herbert George Wells

British Dictionary definitions for pentagram

pentagram

/ (ˈpɛntəˌɡræm) /

noun

a star-shaped figure formed by extending the sides of a regular pentagon to meet at five points

such a figure used as a magical or symbolic figure by the Pythagoreans, black magicians, etc

Also called: pentacle, pentangle

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