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Androcles

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Androcles"

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androclusnoun	Alternative form of Androcles. [The main character of a common folktale that is included in the Aarne–Thompson classification system as type 156.]
acoetesnoun	(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of several mythological characters.
anansenoun	Alternative form of Anansi. [A trickster spider (though sometimes taking human form), one of the primary characters in West African and Caribbean folklore.]
aesopnoun	An Ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him.
alectryonnoun	(Greek mythology) A youth charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite. He fell asleep and was transformed into a rooster as punishment.
everymannoun	In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
acteonnoun	Alternative spelling of Actaeon. [(Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.]
actaeonnoun	(Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
archetypenoun	An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
ogrenoun	(mythology) A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
anansinoun	A trickster spider (though sometimes taking human form), one of the primary characters in West African and Caribbean folklore.
aiasnoun	Alternative form of Ajax (“hero in Greek mythology”). [(Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.]
robin goodfellownoun	(mythology) Puck (the mischievous sprite)
astyanaxnoun	(Greek mythology) The nickname of Scamandrius, child son of Hector and Andromache.
oberonnoun	A fictional character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the king of the fairies, appearing for example in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
ur-heronoun	An original or mythological hero.
ajaxnoun	(computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
alcidesnoun	(Greek mythology, archaic) Synonym of Hercules.
antenornoun	(Greek mythology) A son of Aesyetes
andromachenoun	(Greek mythology) the wife of Hector