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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
George Saintsbury

Meaning of "Iliad" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ILIAD

Iliad  [ˈɪlɪəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILIAD

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Iliad is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ILIAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Iliad

Iliad

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning. Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer. Along with the Odyssey, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the eighth century BC.

Definition of Iliad in the English dictionary

The definition of Iliad in the dictionary is a Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, attributed to Homer and probably composed before 700 bc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ILIAD


Bayard
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beard
bɪəd
bleared
blɪəd
desired
dɪˈzaɪəd
disappeared
ˌdɪsəˈpɪəd
eared
ɪəd
Hilliard
ˈhɪlɪəd
inspired
ɪnˈspaɪəd
layered
ˈleɪəd
misleared
mɪsˈlɪəd
myriad
ˈmɪrɪəd
period
ˈpɪərɪəd
required
rɪˈkwaɪəd
retired
rɪˈtaɪəd
revered
rɪˈvɪəd
tired
ˈtaɪəd
uncleared
ʌnˈklɪəd
undesired
ˌʌndɪˈzaɪəd
weird
wɪəd
wired
waɪəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILIAD

Ilesha
ileum
ileus
ilex
ILGWU
ilia
iliac
Iliadic
Iliamna
Iligan
Ilion
ilium
ilk
ilka
Ilkeston
Ilkley

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILIAD

asclepiad
bromeliad
chiliad
colubriad
eliad
gesneriad
gwiniad
gwyniad
jeremiad
mediad
mesiad
naiad
Olympiad
Ommiad
pleiad
quinquenniad
triad

Synonyms and antonyms of Iliad in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Iliad» into 25 languages

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The translations of Iliad from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Iliad» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

伊利亚特
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Ilíada
570 millions of speakers

English

Iliad
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इलियड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإلياذة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Илиада
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Ilíada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইলিয়াড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Iliad
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Iliad
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ilias
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

イーリアス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일리아드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Iliad
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Iliad
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இலியட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इलियड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İlyada destanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Iliade
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Iliada
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Іліада
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Iliada
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Ιλιάδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Iliad
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Iliaden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Iliad
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Iliad

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7 QUOTES WITH «ILIAD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Iliad.
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Karl Marlantes
'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
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Alice Oswald
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
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Raymond Queneau
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
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Raymond Queneau
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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Raymond Queneau
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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Raymond Queneau
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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George Saintsbury
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILIAD»

Discover the use of Iliad in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Iliad and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Iliad
From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose competing definitions of loss incurred and the nature of compensation thereby owed.
Donna F. Wilson, 2002
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The Iliad of Homer
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever.
Homer, 2011
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The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 5
This is Volume Five of the major six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor G.S. Kirk.
Mark W. Edwards, G. S. Kirk, 1991
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The Iliad: A Commentary
The six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk is complete with the publication of this volume.
Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, Bryan Hainsworth, Richard Janko, 1993
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Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey
Within the knowledge of all of history that has been passed down to us, there is no known predecessor that could lay claim to be the progenitor or equal to these great works. It was Homer who formed the character of the Greek nation.
Homer, 2006
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Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector
By focusing on the story of Hector, James M. Redfield presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric culture.
James M. Redfield, 1994
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Homer: Iliad
Edition for students and scholars of this climactic book in the epic featuring the fatal encounter between Hector and Achilles.
Homer, Irene J. F. de Jong, 2012
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The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning
Extending his distinctive analysis of Homeric epic to the Iliad, Bruce Louden, author of The "Odyssey": Structure, Narration, and Meaning, again presents new approaches to understanding the themes and story of the poem.
Bruce Louden, 2006
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Iliad
This is a new translation of the Iliad designed primarily for those reading Homer for the first time.
Homère, 2007
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Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad
This work will serve to familiarize the Homer scholar with the latest outcomes concerning textual problems in the Iliad; in addition, it will make certain of West's editorial decisions more comprehensible to the specialist.
Martin Litchfield West, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILIAD»

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Things to Do in Westchester, July 19 to 25, 2015 - The New York …
... and “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” along with Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's “An Iliad” and Mary Zimmerman's “The Arabian Nights. «New York Times, Jul 15»
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AIA Announces Research Endowment Fund from Philanthropist …
The Richard C. MacDonald Iliad Endowment for Archaeological Research will be used to create a reliable, long-term stream of revenue to ... «Archaeological Institute of America Latest News, Jul 15»
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Immediate Theatre Project announces 2015/2016 season …
In that capacity they have produced plays as varied as The Glass Menagerie, Venus in Fur, and An Iliad as part of NC Stage's Main Stage ... «Mountain Xpress, Jul 15»
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Going Places, Near & Far: An Open Mind for the Off-Road in Greece …
Homer wrote "The Iliad" about it in 800 BC, but it was long thought to be just legend or myth until Heinrich Schliemann uncovered the ruins of ... «The Island Now, Jul 15»
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Shakespeare's 'Tempest' coming soon to a park near you …
... elements, original verse and prose, provides a worm's eye view of one of the most exciting and visceral epics ever composed: Homer's “Iliad. «Delco News Network, Jul 15»
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Blackbird Theater's new original production focuses on the gods …
"The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid — we've lived with these epics our entire adult lives," says Greene, who admits to the influence of noted ... «Nashville Scene, Jul 15»
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How to Make Greece Rich - Lawrence Osborne - POLITICO Magazine
But I always took my Iliad with me, and there were always places to indulge that habit. Was this tourism? I am not sure even now. But without ... «Politico, Jul 15»
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Sympathetic Sci-Fi - The New Yorker
He pointed out that there are robots in the Iliad, and that robot tales address theological questions about creators and their creations. Today ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
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Bet on T-Mobile (TMUS), the Body in Motion - TheStreet
... and Iliad (ILIAY), which T-Mobile rejected. Sprint endeavored but failed to convince regulators about the benefits of a merger with T-Mobile. «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»
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Jim Webb brings national security experience to presidential race
“The Iliad” focuses on the fighting and related interchange between Greeks and Trojans. “The Odyssey” describes the very long voyage home ... «Deseret News, Jul 15»

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