Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology A whirlpool off the Sicilian coast, opposite the cave of Scylla.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See Scylla.
Wiktionary
- n. A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
- n. Greek mythology A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster.
- n. A general term for any dangerous whirlpool
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
Examples
“The name Charybdis was inscribed in gold at her stern.”
“Picking up right where the last issue left off, Charybdis is being manhandled by Tony and what’s left of the Paradigm is still standing dumbstruck in the Norman Bates-esque school room Tony’s got set up in his citadel.”
“ What Flavor Flav was to Chuck D, what Sancho Panza was to Don Quixote, what Scylla was to Charybdis, that is what a rap sidekick can do for you.”
“Rhegium and Messenè where Sicily is nearest to the continent; it is the so-called Charybdis by which Odysseus is said to have passed.”
“This amazing water vortex sculpture made by William Pye is called Charybdis, and it is located in Seaham Hall, Sunderland, UK.”
“In the cliff opposite lived another terrible creature called Charybdis who stirred the sea to a fierce whirlpool.”
“On the outer edge of the whirlpool of Charybdis, which is a great eddy caused by a jutting point of land on which a fort is built, and on the ebb tide strong enough to swamp a boat, Paul worked for one hour without advancing a single yard; the people all the while expecting to see him swallowed up.”
The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World
“The part on the Sicilian side was called Charybdis, and that on the Italian shore was named Scylla.”
“(B) This river, according tq Strabo, difappeared at a place called Charybdis, between A - pamea and Anticch; and after Having run five miles underr ground, enaerged,”
Internet Archive: An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time
“This story, while a companion piece with "Charybdis" set near Saturn here lacks the clarity/hard-sfnal focus of the previous one, so it did less for me, However it's a piece of lyrical writing that mesmerized me and arguably the best of the collection in style, reading almost like a long poem.”
"In the Valley of the Kings" by Terrence Holt (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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