Excalibur
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- the legendary sword of King Arthur
Word Origin
- Excalibur (n.)
- King Arthur's sword, c. 1300, from Old French Escalibor, corruption of Caliburn, in Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1140) Caliburnus, apparently from Welsh Caledvwlch probably a variant of the legendary Irish sword name Caladbolg which might mean literally "hard-belly," i.e. "voracious." For first element, see callus; for second, see belly (n.).
Example
- 1. Excalibur 's technology would effectively turn your cell phone into a secureid .
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- 3. Excalibur almaz 's bulky space stations will need a lot more work to convert into lunar spacecraft .
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- 5. The brainchild of manhattan project physicist edward teller , project excalibur was supposed to fire off atomic-powered lasers from land or space at incoming missiles .