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单词 gigantomachy
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Example sentences from the Web for gigantomachy

  • He was then publishing his 'Typhon, or the Gigantomachy,' and dedicated it to the cardinal, with an adulatory sonnet.

    The Wits and Beaux of Society|Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton
  • In one of the pediments was a gigantomachy, of which some fragments have been recovered.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7|Various

gigantomachy

gigantomachia (dʒaɪˌɡæntəʊˈmeɪkɪə)

/ (ˌdʒaɪɡænˈtɒməkɪ) /

noun plural -chies or -chias

Greek myth the war fought between the gods of Olympus and the rebelling giantsSee giant (def. 3)
any battle fought between or as if between giants

Word Origin for gigantomachy

C17: from Greek gigantomakhia, from gigas giant + makhē battle

Words nearby gigantomachy

Gigantes, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantism, giganto-, gigantomachy, gigantomastia, Gigantopithecus, gigaton, gigawatt, gig economy
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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