💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Halycon"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| halcyonnoun | (poetic) A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves. |
| ceyxnoun | (Greek mythology) A king who was transformed into a kingfisher, together with his wife Alcyone. |
| stymphalidesnoun | (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, a flock of metallic man-eating birds that haunted Lake Stymphalis in Arkadia. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing. |
| hydriadnoun | A water nymph. |
| harpynoun | (mythology) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds. |
| caladriusnoun | (mythology) A mythical bird that had healing powers. |
| hyperionnoun | (astronomy) One of the moons of Saturn. |
| hydaspesnoun | (historical) The river Jhelum, on the Indian subcontinent, especially as the location of a battle fought by Alexander the Great against King Porus in 326 BCE. |
| cygnusnoun | (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a swan. It includes the triple star system HD 188753 and the stars Deneb and Albireo. |
| pandionnoun | (Greek mythology) The name of two kings of Athens (Pandion I and Pandion II). |
| callirrhoënoun | (Greek mythology) A naiad, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. |
| alcyonenoun | (astronomy) One of the stars of the Pleiades star cluster, named after the mythical character. |
| calydonnoun | (historical) An Ancient Greek city in the country of Aetolia, north of the Gulf of Patras in western Greece, on the west bank of the river Evenus. |
| pheonixnoun | Misspelling of phoenix. [(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.] |
| himalianoun | (astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter. |
| hippocrenenoun | (Greek mythology) A fountain on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses and formed by the hooves of Pegasus, the waters of which were supposed to give poetic inspiration when imbibed. |
| nestornoun | (Greek mythology) An old and wise king in Homer's Iliad. |
| scolionnoun | (Greek antiquities) Any of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre. |
| haietliknoun | (mythology) A mythical sea serpent from Nootka mythology. |
| hesperianoun | Literally "western land", a term poetically applied by Ancient Greeks to Italy and by Romans to the Iberian Peninsula and Western Africa. |
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