Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The god of dreams in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the later Roman poets, a god of dreams, son of Sleep; hence, sleep.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Class. Myth.) The god of dreams.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the Roman god of sleep and dreams
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheus, "Morpheus"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Morpheus is wearing blackface because _there aren't any black actors in Russia.”
“Morpheus is not depicted as either superior or inferior to the other cast members, and even if he were, his race is in no way a factor.”
“Courting Morpheus is a themed horror anthology edited by Jodi Lee and contains work by talents such as M.R. Sellars, Geoffrey Girard, Louise Bohmer, Camille Alexa, and more.”
“Among the fest's weaker offerings so far, count Alex Mar's "American Mystic," which follows America's marginalized souls into trailer camps and towns called Morpheus, California, as they sit beside their plastic Jesus and talk about healing, visions, or "identifying as a witch.”
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“All Ill say is that when we meet again, it wont be in a flume, but on a mysterious highway known as the Morpheus Road.”
“Then there's an ad for a magazine called Morpheus Tales, which I've never heard of, but which the ad says is from the creative minds behind Black Tears Magazine, Violent Spectres Magazine and Morpheus Press, none of which I have ever heard of.”
“After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power.”
“The Sandman, also known as Morpheus or Dream, is one of the Endless – seven ‘beings’ or ‘anthropomorphic representations’ of aspects of creation.”
“I mean real trout -- big fellows, the kind the fishers of little streams dream of but awake to call Morpheus a liar, just as they are too polite to call you a liar when you are so indiscreet as to tell them a few plain facts.”
“From www. musiciansforfreedom.com "V", also known as Morpheus, http questions the audience at a recent City of Phoenix hearing.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Morpheus’.
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LIT - Greco-Latin gods and heroes
Phaeton, Metis, Lachesis, Juventas, Hestia, Hellen, Gaia, Clotho, Cadmus, Atropos, Athena, Mnemosyne and 198 more...
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gods
A list of mythological gods that people have worshipped throughout history (includes primordial dieties).
They can be animate or inanimate (male or female). 3+ syllables
Please ...Aphrodite, Aurora, Asclepius, Veiovis, Athena, Morpheus, Discordia, Hephaestus, Adonai, Osiris, Protogenoi, Calypso and 4 more...
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