Cadmean victory
noun
: a victory obtained only at great or ruinous cost to the victor compare pyrrhic victory
Word History
Etymology
translation of Greek Kadmeia nikē; from the mutual slaughter of all but five of the armed men who sprang from dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus
First Known Use
1603, in the meaning defined above
- borlotti beans
- borlottis
- born
- born and bred
- born down
- born leader
- born of necessity
- born on
- born out
- born out of
- born out of wedlock
- born too late
- born up
- born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- born-again
- born/natural leader
- Borna disease
- bornane
- borne
- borne (down on)
- borne (down)
- borne a hand
- borne down
- borne down on
- borne fruit