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  2. Mononym - Wikipedia

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    During the early Middle Ages, mononymity slowly declined, with northern and eastern Europe keeping the tradition longer than the south.The Dutch Renaissance scholar and theologian Erasmus is a late example of mononymity; though sometimes referred to as "Desiderius Erasmus" or "Erasmus of Rotterdam", he was christened only as "Erasmus", after the martyr Erasmus of Formiae.

  3. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Primarily denotes one hundred years, but occasionally used, especially in the context of competitive racing, to refer to something consisting of one hundred, as in a 100-mile race. Dozen: 12 A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] Baker's dozen: 13

  4. List of one-word stage names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable people best known by a stage name consisting of a single word.. This list does not include - . famous people who are commonly referred to only by their first name (e.g. Adele, Beyoncé, Elvis, Madonna).

  5. Eponym - Wikipedia

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    The mythological Greek hero Orion is the eponym of the constellation Orion, shown here, and thus indirectly of the Orion spacecraft. [1]An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.

  6. Diaeresis (diacritic) - Wikipedia

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    Diaeresis [a] (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, -⁠ EER-) [1] is a diacritical mark consisting of two dots ( ̈) that indicates that two adjacent vowel letters are separate syllables – a vowel hiatus (also called a diaeresis) – rather than a digraph or diphthong.

  7. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    Having a character have a dream is a common device to embed one narrative or scene within another. (Painting by William Blake, 1805) A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one). [1]

  8. Precomposed character - Wikipedia

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    A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a diacritical mark , such as é (Latin small letter e with acute accent ).

  9. Composite character - Wikipedia

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    Ulana Khomyuk in Chernobyl is a composite character created to represent "the many scientists who worked fearlessly and put themselves in a lot of danger to help solve the situation." [20] The Tudors (2007): Henry VIII's sisters Margaret Tudor and Mary Tudor, Queen of France were amalgamated into one character named Margaret. The character of ...