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PRONUNCIATION OF GERYON

Geryon  [ˈɡɛrɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GERYON

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Geryon is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GERYON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Geryon

Geryon

In Greek mythology, Geryon, son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe and grandson of Medusa, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean. A more literal-minded later generation of Greeks associated the region with Tartessos in southern Iberia. Geryon was often described as a monster with human faces. According to Hesiod Geryon had one body and three heads, whereas the tradition followed by Aeschylus gave him three bodies. A lost description by Stesichoros said that he has six hands and six feet and is winged; there are some mid-sixth-century Chalcidian vases portraying Geryon as winged. Some accounts state that he had six legs as well while others state that the three bodies were joined to one pair of legs. Apart from these bizarre features, his appearance was that of a warrior. He owned a two-headed hound named Orthrus, which was the brother of Cerberus, and a herd of magnificent red cattle that were guarded by Orthrus, and a herder Eurytion, son of Erytheia.

Definition of Geryon in the English dictionary

The definition of Geryon in the dictionary is a winged monster with three bodies joined at the waist, killed by Hercules, who stole the monster's cattle as his tenth labour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GERYON


Adrian
ˈeɪdrɪən
Austrian
ˈɒstrɪən
Bulgarian
bʌlˈɡɛərɪən
clarion
ˈklærɪən
criterion
kraɪˈtɪərɪən
daguerrean
dəˈɡɛrɪən
equestrian
ɪˈkwɛstrɪən
historian
hɪˈstɔːrɪən
humanitarian
hjuːˌmænɪˈtɛərɪən
Hungarian
hʌŋˈɡɛərɪən
Liberian
laɪˈbɪərɪən
librarian
laɪˈbrɛərɪən
Marian
ˈmɛərɪən
Nigerian
naɪˈdʒɪərɪən
ovarian
əʊˈveərɪən
pedestrian
pɪˈdɛstrɪən
presbyterian
ˌprɛzbɪˈtɪərɪən
Syrian
ˈsɪrɪən
vegetarian
ˌvɛdʒɪˈtɛərɪən
Victorian
vɪkˈtɔːrɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GERYON

Gers
Gershwin
gert
gertcha
gerund
Gerunda
gerundial
gerundival
gerundive
gerundively
Gervais
gesellschaft
gesellschaften
gesneria
gesneriad
gesso
gest
Gesta Romanorum
Gestalt
Gestalt psychology

WORDS THAT END LIKE GERYON

alectryon
Amphitryon
antibaryon
Apollyon
baryon
canyon
crayon
Grand Canyon
halcyon
heterokaryon
karyon
Lyon
perikaryon
prokaryon
rayon
Runyon
synkaryon
tachyon
toyon
yon

Synonyms and antonyms of Geryon in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translator English - Chinese

革律翁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Gerión
570 millions of speakers

English

Geryon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Geryon
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Geryon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Герион
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Gerião
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Geryon
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Géryon
220 millions of speakers

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Geryon
190 millions of speakers

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Geryon
180 millions of speakers

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ゲリュオン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Geryon
85 millions of speakers

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Geryon
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Geryon
80 millions of speakers

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Geryon
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गॅरोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Geryon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Gerione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Geryon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Герион
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Geryon
30 millions of speakers
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Γηρυόνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Geryon
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Geryon
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Geryon
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GERYON»

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Geryon
Recounts the classical myth about the triple-bodied monster who lost his life and herd of red oxen in a battle with Hercules.
Bernard Evslin, 1987
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The Rose and Geryon
Gabriella I. Baika. These clues scattered all throughout the first cantica project the under- world as a space where communication plays a fundamental role on all levels: the one between the two visitors, where a lot of explaining needs to be ...
Gabriella I. Baika, 2014
3
A Reading of Dante's Inferno
THIS CANTO, clearly divided into three parts, begins with the image of fraud in the monster Geryon (17: 1-30), continues with a brief passage on the usurers (17: 31-75) of the seventh circle, and ends with the dramatic descent into the eighth ...
Wallace Fowlie, 1981
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Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition
NOTES 1-27 In classical mythology Geryon was a three-bodied giant who ruled Spain, and was slain by Hercules in the course of his Twelve Labors. Here in the Inferno he is the personification of Fraud, whose face ("the face of any honest ...
Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa, 1995
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The Falcon, the Beast and the Image: Dante's "Geryon" and W. ...
David Cane. CHAPTER 7 PROPHECIES, EXILES AND STARS: A TENTATIVE CONCLUSION It is possible to go even further in this search for Dantean echoes in Yeats' The Second Coming1. There are other falcons, other lion-men, other ...
David Cane, 2007
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Lectura Dantis: Inferno
CANTO. XVII. Geryon's. Downward. Flight;. the. Usurers. PAOLO CHERCHI Canto xvn is like a busy railroad station, where a number of tracks end and new ones originate. These tracks are themes, motives, and narrative segments. Geryon ...
Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Stanley Ross, 1998
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Mandel'shtam's Poetics: A Challenge to Postmodernism
Geryon, a skin that is a flying carpet cutting through space.34 Moreover, Mandel' shtam does not merely allude to the flying of Geryon in Dante's Commedia; he also unfolds the notion of flight from the impulse transmitted by the multicoloured  ...
Elena Corrigan, 2000
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The Cambridge Companion to Dante
The voyage on Geryon functions as an ironic parody of the Homeric journey, acritique ofthepresumptionofyouthfromtheperspectiveofmiddle age. Whatever the moralintent,Geryon is exquisitelyliterary;its various motifs form a patchwork whose ...
Rachel Jacoff, 2007
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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
The details of the tale are established as early as Hesiod:3 Geryon — the 'Roarer ,' son of Chrysaor, the son of Gorgo, and the Oceanid Callirhoe — has three heads or even three bodies; he lives on Erytheia, the 'Red Island,' in the far West  ...
Walter Burkert, 1982
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Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled
The loss of separation of the world, brought on by the sexuality of his brother— the first experience of a couple, the first experience of something like love — inspires Geryon to imagine his own death — the impossibility of immortality, or divinity, ...
Michael Cobb, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GERYON»

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The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads
... upgrade, the path featured in Greek mythology as the legendary route of Heracles when he drove the cattle he stole from Geryon along it. «Atlas Obscura, Jun 15»
2
Area educators and librarians share the book passages that inspried …
... Wisconsin-Platteville, said she enjoys the contemporary version of the Greek myth of Geryon and Herakles that renders Geryon as a "lonely, ... «Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Jun 15»
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RCA Viktor–His Master's Voice in Canada (3)
It's time to look at the system and the play list that RCA Viktor is operating with in this country. It's time to examine from close range, how Geryon ... «Hungarian Free Press, Jun 15»
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A Few Reasons Why Poets Love Bruce Conner
Titled “GERYON” the drawings depict the mythical Greek monster who is described variously as having three heads and one body, three heads ... «Hyperallergic, May 15»
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Seriously, this guy has quite possibly one of the most irritating arsenal of attack's i've seen in a Devil May Cry game (though Geryon and ... «Destructoid, May 15»
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BWR: Avoiding the Azores High
Legend has it that, as one of his 12 labours, Hercules was required to fetch the cattle of Geryon and to deliver them to Eurystheus. But his way ... «Scuttlebutt Sailing News, Mar 15»
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Flights of fancy ... Has a nuclear explosion been photographed on …
Geryon Montes: not just a mountain range in Valles Marineris, but the name of a secret agent. Or super villain. pic.twitter.com/P6cj4yMbpy. «NEWS.com.au, Mar 15»
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Bookstores We Love Share the Books About Love They Love To …
Autobiography Of Red, by Anne Carson — Geryon is a monster: winged, red. He comes from a good family, not too much money but his mom ... «KQED, Feb 15»
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... scientist's violent evolution reaches its deadly apex, an alien-and-predator battle royale erupts in the bowels of the doomed Geryon armada! «Unleash The Fanboy, Jan 15»
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Deforestation, mining wreak havoc in Temiar outposts (VIDEO)
Without it, we might have already been wiped out,” said a 78-year-old Temiar called Geryon, who lived in Kg Tapai near Pos Balar. A child is ... «Malay Mail Online, Jan 15»

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