💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Leonides"
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| leonoun | (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves analogously to the xiangqi cannon and queen, moving either orthogonally or diagonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture. |
| nicomedianoun | (historical) Former name of Izmit: a city in Turkey; the ancient capital of Bithynia. |
| helenusnoun | (Greek mythology) the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra. |
| xerxesnoun | (historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC. |
| alcibiadesnoun | A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs), notably borne by Alcibiades (450–404 B.C.), a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. |
| halicarnassusnoun | An ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. |
| diomedesnoun | (Greek mythology) a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War |
| ramjetnoun | (aeronautics) A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic. |
| tetrarchnoun | A governor or ruler of a quarter of a country, especially of a fourth part of a province in or client state of Ancient Rome. |
| trojan warnoun | (Greek mythology) A mythological war and siege as described in Homer's Iliad. |
| leonidasnoun | King Leonidas I of Sparta; he was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae, 480BC. |
| cepheusnoun | (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, located between Draco and Cassiopeia and representing the king Cepheus from Greek myth. It contains the star Alderamin. |
| dionysiusnoun | A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Διονύσιος (Dionúsios). |
| phrygianoun | (historical) A geographic region and ancient kingdom in the west central part of Asia Minor, in what is now modern-day Turkey. |
| seleucusnoun | A male given name from Ancient Greek, particularly Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire. |
| pyrrhusnoun | Ancient Greek given name, particularly worn by the king of Epirus (319-272 BC) who defeated Romans in several battles, but sustained heavy losses, from which the term Pyrrhic victory was coined. |
| odysseusnoun | (Greek mythology) The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey. |
| huitzilopochtlinoun | An important god of the Mexica. |
| orestesnoun | (Greek mythology) The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother, avenging his father's death, and was then pursued by the Furies. |
| argivenoun | (Ancient Greece, poetic) In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general. |
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