| 单词 | mythical being |
| 释义 | mythical being (once / 120606 pages) n WORD FAMILY mythical being: mythical beings USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s potentially not the best parenting method. You’re talking about a mythical being deciding whether you’re getting presents or not.” The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) Some are drawn from the plant or animal worlds, or refer to mythical beings with which the individual may identify. BBC(Dec 06, 2015) “We Filipinos have some really crazy mythical beings. Imagine they were all rap stars!” he says on his Facebook page. Time(Apr 23, 2015) n an imaginary being of myth or fable Exp|Hypo|Hyper Augeas (Greek mythology) the mythical Greek king who for 30 years did not clean his stables which contained his vast herd of cattle Alcyone(Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher Arjuna(Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God Scylla(Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait Stentorthe mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes Dardanus(Greek mythology) founder of Troy Ganymede(Greek mythology) a Trojan boy who was so beautiful that Zeus carried him away to serve as cupbearer to the gods Hyperborean(Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind Niobe(Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all; Niobe was turned to stone while bewailing her loss Perseus(Greek mythology) the son of Zeus who slew Medusa (with the help of Athena and Hermes) and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster Andromeda(Greek mythology) an Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia; she was fastened to a rock and exposed to a sea monster that was sent by Poseidon, but she was rescued by Perseus and became his wife Cepheus(Greek mythology) king of Ethiopia and husband of Cassiopeia Cassiopeia(Greek mythology) the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda Midas(Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold Sisyphus(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again Narcissus(Greek mythology) a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection Nibelung(German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried Bellerophon(Greek mythology) a mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus (especially killing the monster Chimera) Paris(Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War Patroclus(Greek mythology) a friend of Achilles who was killed in the Trojan War; his death led Achilles to return to the fight after his quarrel with Agamemnon Pegasus(Greek mythology) the immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa; was tamed by Bellerophon with the help of a bridle given him by Athena; as the flying horse of the Muses it is a symbol of highflying imagination Sarpedon(Greek mythology) a son of Zeus who became king of Lycia; fought on behalf of the Trojans in the Trojan War and was killed by Patroclus Siegfried(German mythology) mythical German warrior hero of the Nibelungenlied who takes possession of the accursed treasure of the Nibelungs by slaying the dragon that guards it and awakens Brynhild and is eventually killed; Sigurd is the Norse counterpart Sigurd(Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart Enkidulegendary friend of Gilgamish Gilgamishlegendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics Sitawife of the Hindu god Rama; regarded as an ideal of womanhood Hero(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her Leander(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her Pygmalion(Greek mythology) a king who created a statue of a woman and fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life as Galatea Galatea(Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers Romulus(Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome Remus(Roman mythology) the twin brother of Romulus Daedalus(Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus Icarus(Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned Procrustes(Greek mythology) a mythical giant who was a thief and murderer; he would capture people and tie them to an iron bed, stretching them or hacking off their legs to make them fit; was killed by Theseus Eurydice(Greek mythology) the wife of Orpheus Orion(Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation Orpheus(Greek mythology) a great musician; when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed Psyche(Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul Heracles(classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality Pandora(Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils Fenrir(Norse mythology) an enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin Volund(Norse mythology) a wonderful smith; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wayland and Teutonic Wieland Yggdrasil(Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together Ymir(Norse mythology) the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world: the sea from his blood; the earth from his flesh; the mountains from his bones; the sky from his skull Wayland the Smith(European mythology) a supernatural smith and king of the elves; identified with Norse Volund Ajaxa mythical Greek hero; a warrior who fought against Troy in the Iliad Valkyrie(Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla Jason(Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece Medea(Greek mythology) a princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father Laertes(Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus Odysseus(Greek mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero; his return to Ithaca after the siege of Troy was described in the Odyssey Ulysses(Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus Penelope(Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity; for 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them Theseus(Greek mythology) a hero and king of Athens who was noted for his many great deeds: killed Procrustes and the Minotaur and defeated the Amazons and united Attica Tantalus(Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it Achillesa mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel' Aeneasa mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid Atreus(Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus Agamemnon(Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War Menelaus(Greek mythology) the king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen Iphigenia(Greek mythology) the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon; Agamemnon was obliged to offer her as a sacrifice to Artemis when the Greek fleet was becalmed on its way to Troy; Artemis rescued her and she later became a priestess Clytemnestra(Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon who had him murdered when he returned from the Trojan War Aegisthus(Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him Orestes(Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; his sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus Antigone(Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death Creon(Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus Jocasta(Greek mythology) queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus Electra(Greek mythology) the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; persuaded her brother (Orestes) to avenge Agamemnon's death by helping her to kill Clytemnestra and her lover (Aegisthus) Laocoon(Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them Laius(Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus Myrmidon(Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy King Oedipus(Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles Tiresias(Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother Peleusa king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles Hector(Greek mythology) a mythical Trojan who was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War Helen of Troy(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War Leda(Greek mythology) a queen of Sparta who was raped by Zeus who had taken the form of a swan; Helen of Troy was conceived in the rape of Leda Priam(Greek mythology) the last king of Troy; father of Hector and Paris and Cassandra Sasquatchlarge hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada Loch Ness monstera large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland Fafnir(Norse mythology) the Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd Python(Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi Eumenides(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals halcyon a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves mythical creature, mythical monstera monster renowned in folklore and myth phoenixa legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years houri(Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise Amazon(Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively) Gog and Magogbiblical names of the enemies of God's people who wage war against God at the end of the world golem(Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means hero(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god legendary creaturea monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual amphisbaena(classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body basilisk(classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance centaur(classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse Cerberus, hellhound(Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades; son of Typhon Chimaera, Chimera(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon cockatricemonster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance dragon, firedrakea creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings Geryon(Greek mythology) a mythical monster with three heads that was slain by Hercules Gorgon(Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone griffin, griffon, gryphonwinged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion Harpy(Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman Hydra(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones leviathanmonstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament mantichora, manticora, manticore, mantigera mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion Minotaur(Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus Nemean lion(Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors rocmythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength salamanderreptilian creature supposed to live in fire Sphinx(Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon troll(Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains Typhoeus(Greek mythology) son of Gaea and Tartarus who created the whirlwinds; had a terrifying voice and 100 dragon heads that spurted fire Typhon(Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads who breathed out flames; son of Typhoeus and father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx loup-garou, lycanthrope, werewolf, wolfmana monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again imaginary being, imaginary creature a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction |
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