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Phaeton

🔄 Synonyms of "Phaeton"

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Word	Definition
touring carnoun	A large open car seating four or more people and having a folding top. An automobile designed for touring; specifically, a roomy car, not a limousine.
tourernoun	(informal) A touring bicycle.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Phaeton"

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Word	Definition
touring carnoun	A large open car seating four or more people and having a folding top. An automobile designed for touring; specifically, a roomy car, not a limousine.
tourernoun	(informal) A touring bicycle.
perchnoun	Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
phætonnoun	Obsolete form of Phaëthon. [(Greek mythology) The son of the sun god Helios who was killed by Zeus while driving his father's chariot uncontrolledly across the sky.]
phaethonnoun	(astronomy) the asteroid Phaethon
phaëtonnoun	A hypothetical planet between Mars and Jupiter, whose destruction led to the production of the asteroid belt.
phaëthonnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of the sun god Helios who was killed by Zeus while driving his father's chariot uncontrolledly across the sky.
arvaknoun	(Norse mythology) One of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun.
four horsemennoun	(humorous) The four main proponents of new atheism: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens.
centaurnoun	(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
four horsemen of the apocalypsenoun	(idiomatic) Harbingers of doom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction.
bucephalusnoun	(historical) The warhorse of Alexander the Great.
charonnoun	(Greek mythology) The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.
pegasusnoun	(Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
alsvidnoun	In Norse mythology, one of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun.
actaeonnoun	(Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
strophalosnoun	A wheel or spinner that is an emblem of the Greek goddess Hecate.
amphitryonnoun	(poetic) A host or entertainer.
hippocampnoun	(Greek mythology) A mythological creature, a cross between a horse and a fish.
trojan horsenoun	(computer security) A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.