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Meaning of "Phaethon" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHAETHON

Phaethon  [ˈfeɪəθən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHAETHON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phaethon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHAETHON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phaethon

Phaethon

Of the characters in Greek mythology called Phaethon, the best known was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Apollo or Helios. Alternative, less common genealogies make him a son of Clymenus by Merope, of Helios and Rhode or of Helios and Prote. He was a lesser deity, and was mortal. In the prevailing account, Phaethon, challenged by his playmates, sought assurance from his mother that his father was the sun god. She gave him the requested assurance and told him to turn to his father for confirmation. He asked his father for some proof that would demonstrate his relationship with the sun. When the god promised to grant him whatever he wanted, he insisted on being allowed to drive the sun chariot for a day. Placed in charge of the chariot, he was unable to control the horses. The earth was in danger of being burnt up and, to prevent this disaster, Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt. The name "Phaethon", which means "Shining One", was given also to Phaethon, to one of the horses of Eos, the Sun, the constellation Auriga, and the planet Jupiter, while as an adjective it was used to describe the sun and the moon.

Definition of Phaethon in the English dictionary

The definition of Phaethon in the dictionary is an asteroid that has an orbit approaching close to the sun and releases fragments of dust that enter the earth's atmosphere as meteors.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHAETHON


agnathan
æɡˈneɪθən
autochthon
ɔːˈtɒkθən
Brython
ˈbrɪθən
earthen
ˈɜːθən
Elizabethan
ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθən
Goliathan
ɡəˈlaɪəθən
Jonathan
ˈdʒɒnəθən
lathen
ˈlɑːθən
lengthen
ˈlɛŋkθən
leviathan
lɪˈvaɪəθən
luthern
ˈluːθən
marathon
ˈmærəθən
Melanchthon
məˈlæŋkθən
Nathan
ˈneɪθən
python
ˈpaɪθən
sithen
ˈsɪθən
strengthen
ˈstrɛŋθən
talkathon
ˈtɔːkəθən
transleithan
trænzˈleɪθən
ultramarathon
ˈʌltrəˌmærəθən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHAETHON

Phaeacian
Phaedra
Phaedrus

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHAETHON

anacoluthon
benthon
carpet python
Comrades Marathon
drunkathon
half-marathon
Phlegethon
phonathon
radiothon
rock python
synthon
telethon
the Comrades Marathon
thon
trilithon
walkathon

Synonyms and antonyms of Phaethon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Phaethon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHAETHON

Find out the translation of Phaethon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Phaethon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Phaethon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

法厄同
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Phaethon
570 millions of speakers

English

Phaethon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Phaethon
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Phaethon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Фаэтон
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Phaethon
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Phaethon
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Phaéton
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Phaethon
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Phaethon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フェイトン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Phaethon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Phaethon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Phaethon
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Phaethon
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फाथोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Phaethon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Fetonte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Phaethon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фаетон
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Phaethon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Phaethon
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Phaethon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

phaethonen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Phaethon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Phaethon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHAETHON»

The term «Phaethon» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.783 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHAETHON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Phaethon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Phaethon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHAETHON»

Discover the use of Phaethon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Phaethon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Euripides: Phaethon
Examines the manuscript evidence of the surviving text of the Phaethon of Euripides and offers many decipherments.
Euripides, James Diggle, 2004
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Phaethon
Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read-today.
Charles Kingsley, 2008
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Phaethon's children: the Este court and its culture in early ...
Ferrarese studies : tracking the rise and fall of an urban lordship in the Renaissance / Dennis Looney -- Ferrara : arts and ideologies in a Renaissance state / Riccardo Bruscagli -- Marriage and succession in the house of Este : a literary ...
Dennis Looney, Deanna Shemek, 2005
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Phaethon
and does report it in his long narrative speech: that must be how Clymene knows Phaethon is dead even before the body is brought to her. Also, this reading of the plot reinforces the argument that the messenger is the boy's Tutor reporting ...
Euripides, 2008
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Phaethon
Charles Kingsley. lances, shudders and sweats with terror at a boy rattling pebbles in a bladder ; and I feel altogether dizzy, and dread lest I should suffer some such transformation as Scylla, when I hear awful words, like incantations, ...
Charles Kingsley, 1854
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Phaethon and Other Stories for Ovid
fession, feeling that the fortune, which was scanty for two, might suffice for one. To this time we may refer the poet's words, quondam petit studiosus Athenas. Athens, with its famous schools of Grammar, Rhetoric, and Philosophy, was the great ...
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The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
The son of the sun god (either HELIOS or APOLLO) and Clymene, Phaethon (“ shining”) became famous for his tragic attempt to drive his father's chariot. When one of Phaethon's playmates suggested that Phaethon was not really Helios' son,  ...
John E. Thorburn, 2005
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Greek Mythology
Or he might get dizzy being so high in the sky: Apollo begged Phaethon to make a different wish. Phaethon was brave, though, and foolish. Apollo could tell he would not be able to change Phaethon's mind, so he agreed to grant Phaethon's  ...
Simone Payment, 2006
9
Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects
upon the Metamorphoses as a psychological textbook. Ovid depicts many an instructive individual case, but he is not trying to categorize or typify. Narcissus, for instance, to whose story we will turn after that of Phaethon, is Narcissus and not ...
Karl Galinsky, 1975
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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
human. The Phaethon figure projects a crisis of identity. He seeks proof that his father is really the sun, according to what he suspects, what his own name suggests, and what his mother actively affirms. This dilemma is fundamental to the myth ...
Wendell Vernon Clausen, G. P. Goold, Department Of Classi Harvard University, 1973

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHAETHON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Phaethon is used in the context of the following news items.
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Dry in December territory
Phaethon paid $10,000 daily for the 76,600-dwt Thetis (built 2004) over three to five months. Supramaxes have been the top performers during ... «TradeWinds, Jul 15»
2
Courts can skip empty formalities: SC
In this case, Phaethon International Co SA vs M V Americana, the ship was in Hazira port. There was a claim of $141,812.99 against Americana ... «Business Standard, Jun 15»
3
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award Announces 2015 Winners
The company's first implementation of the technology, Phaethon™, is a device that can be retro-fitted to any type of solar water heater, in order ... «Greek Reporter, Jun 15»
4
Public Release: 17-Jun-2015 CU-Boulder-led study shows moon …
The Geminid meteor showers occur each December when Earth plows through a cloud of debris from an oddball object called Phaethon, which ... «EurekAlert, Jun 15»
5
Icarus makes closest approach in nearly 50 years
Like “rock comet” turned-asteroid 3200 Phaethon, which is the source of the December Geminid meteor shower, Icarus might be a captured ... «Sen, Jun 15»
6
Boys and Girls Club Greenwich To Host Annual Corporate …
To kick off the event, club members, ages 8 to 12 will participate in a basketball clinic hosted by NBA professional Phaethon Bolton, a club ... «Patch.com, Apr 15»
7
3 on 3 Basketball Tournament Benefits Boys and Girls Club
The event started off with a basketball clinic hosted by Phaethon Bolton. He played division one hoops at Wake Forest and is a Boys and Girls ... «It's Relevant: New Canaan, Apr 15»
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Dry rates flat
Phaethon has hired the 180,000-dwt Leopold LD (built 2014) in Hadera for the Black Sea and Singapore-Japan at $12,250 daily. Panamaxes:. «TradeWinds, Mar 15»
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Oxygen Therapy May Help Increase Survival Rates In Cancer Patients
... Rodig, Robert Abbott, Molly Thayer, Shalini Sethumadhavan, Ryan Cannici, Phaethon Philbrook and Kami Ko also participated in the study. «Tech Times, Mar 15»
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Five in a row
Phaethon has chartered the 58,100-dwt Moonbeam (built 2013) in Nemrut Bay for the Black Sea and China at $9,500 daily. Ultrabulk has fixed ... «TradeWinds, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Phaethon [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/phaethon>. May 2024 ».
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