Definitions for Palladium

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Palladium pal·la·di·um

Spelling: [puh-ley-dee-uh m]

IPA: /pəˈleɪ di əm/

Palladium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in Palladium (aadillmpu).

Definitions for Palladium

noun

1. a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
2. Also, Palladion [puh-ley-dee-on] /pəˈleɪ diˌɒn/ (Show IPA). a statue of Athena, especially one on the citadel of Troy on which the safety of the city was supposed to depend.
3. (usually lowercase) anything believed to provide protection or safety; safeguard.

Origin of Palladium

special use of Palladium; named (1803) after the asteroid Pallas, then newly discovered; see -ium

Examples for Palladium

A little while ago, at the palladium, there was a Moore and Burgess revival.

And the Scotch Rite is, by the hypothesis, apart from the palladium.

An English judge and an English jury were to him the palladium of discerning truth.

Kurt and Courtney met the second time in May 1991 during an L7 concert at the palladium in Los Angeles.

Every means was taken to nullify the value of the "palladium of British liberty."

He stormed legendary spots like palladium and Tunnel, and turned them into strobe-lit dens of iniquity.

“Ahn” became the palladium of English philological education.

Should she do so, it would be like the palladium ceasing to stand and Troy falling.

It denies the writ of Habeas Corpus, ever known as the palladium of the citizen.

Big words, my dear Gilbert: but did the palladium save Troy?