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.

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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, pentagonal dodecahedron, Pentagonese, pentagonoid, Pentagon Papers, pentagram, pentahedron, pentahydrate, pentahydric, pentahydroxy, pentalpha

How to use pentagram in a sentence

About ten minutes later, he stood at an altar in front of a nearly five-foot, lit-up pentagram.
The House of Shock Is Terrifying Its Guests and Causing Controversy—and the Zombies Who Run the Show Are Loving It|Tyler Gillespie|October 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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
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
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

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
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
Working together, we had once carved a pentagram in the side of this tree-trunk.
On the Future of our Educational Institutions|Friedrich Nietzsche

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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pentagram

Origin of pentagram

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