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pentathlon
An athletic contest in which each athlete competes in five different events.
🌱The modern Olympic pentathlon includes swimming, cross-country running, horseback riding, fencing, and target shooting. 🌳The Greek word athlos means "contest or trial," so to be an athlete you had to compete in physical contests. The ancient Greek pentathlon tested warriors' skills in sprinting, long jumping, javelin throwing, discus throwing, and wrestling, none of which are part of today's Olympic pentathlon. But a pentathlete must still have muscles and reflexes suited to almost any kind of physical feat. See also decathlon. Pentateuch The first five books of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been written by Moses.
🌱The Pentateuch takes us from the creation of the world up to the Israelites' arrival in the Promised Land. 🌳Pentateuch means simply "five books." In Greek, the Pentateuch （which Jews call the Torah） includes the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These contain some of the oldest and most famous stories in the Bible, including those of Adam and Eve, Jacob and his brothers, and Moses, as well as some of the oldest codes of law known, including the Ten Commandments. pentameter A line of poetry consisting of five metrical feet.
🌱Shakespeare's tragedies are written mainly in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter. 🌳In a line of poetry written in perfect iambic pentameter, there are five unstressed syllables, each of which is followed by a stressed syllable. Each pair of syllables is a metrical foot called an iamb.Much of the greatest poetry in English has been written in iambic pentameter; Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton used it more than any other meter. Robert Frost's line "I'm going out to clean the pasture spring" is an example of it; his "And miles to go before I sleep" is instead an example of iambic tetrameter, with only four accented syllables. Pentecostal Of or relating to any of various fundamentalist sects that stress personal experience of God and vocal expression in worship.
🌱Their neighbors belonged to a Pentecostal sect and, homeschooled their daughters, who never wore clothes more revealing than floor-length skirts and long pants. 🌳In ancient Greek, pentekoste meant "fiftieth day"—that is, the fiftieth day after Easter （counting Easter itself）. On that day, Christians celebrate an event described in the Bible that took place fifty days after Christ's resurrection, when the apostles heard the rush of a mighty wind, saw tongues of fire descending on them, and heard the Holy Spirit speaking from their own mouths but in other tongues （languages）. "Speaking in tongues," when everyone in a congregation may begin talking in languages that no one can understand, is the best-known practice of Pentecostals. Pentecostals belong to many different denominations; with growing numbers especially in Latin America and Africa, there may be over 500 million Pentecostals worldwide.
🌱The modern Olympic pentathlon includes swimming, cross-country running, horseback riding, fencing, and target shooting. 🌳The Greek word athlos means "contest or trial," so to be an athlete you had to compete in physical contests. The ancient Greek pentathlon tested warriors' skills in sprinting, long jumping, javelin throwing, discus throwing, and wrestling, none of which are part of today's Olympic pentathlon. But a pentathlete must still have muscles and reflexes suited to almost any kind of physical feat. See also decathlon. Pentateuch The first five books of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been written by Moses.
🌱The Pentateuch takes us from the creation of the world up to the Israelites' arrival in the Promised Land. 🌳Pentateuch means simply "five books." In Greek, the Pentateuch （which Jews call the Torah） includes the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These contain some of the oldest and most famous stories in the Bible, including those of Adam and Eve, Jacob and his brothers, and Moses, as well as some of the oldest codes of law known, including the Ten Commandments. pentameter A line of poetry consisting of five metrical feet.
🌱Shakespeare's tragedies are written mainly in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter. 🌳In a line of poetry written in perfect iambic pentameter, there are five unstressed syllables, each of which is followed by a stressed syllable. Each pair of syllables is a metrical foot called an iamb.Much of the greatest poetry in English has been written in iambic pentameter; Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton used it more than any other meter. Robert Frost's line "I'm going out to clean the pasture spring" is an example of it; his "And miles to go before I sleep" is instead an example of iambic tetrameter, with only four accented syllables. Pentecostal Of or relating to any of various fundamentalist sects that stress personal experience of God and vocal expression in worship.
🌱Their neighbors belonged to a Pentecostal sect and, homeschooled their daughters, who never wore clothes more revealing than floor-length skirts and long pants. 🌳In ancient Greek, pentekoste meant "fiftieth day"—that is, the fiftieth day after Easter （counting Easter itself）. On that day, Christians celebrate an event described in the Bible that took place fifty days after Christ's resurrection, when the apostles heard the rush of a mighty wind, saw tongues of fire descending on them, and heard the Holy Spirit speaking from their own mouths but in other tongues （languages）. "Speaking in tongues," when everyone in a congregation may begin talking in languages that no one can understand, is the best-known practice of Pentecostals. Pentecostals belong to many different denominations; with growing numbers especially in Latin America and Africa, there may be over 500 million Pentecostals worldwide.
PENT comes from the Greek word for "five." The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the world's largest office building, has five sides just like any other pentagon. And a pentatonic scale in music has only five notes, rather than the seven notes of the major or minor scale.🌸