Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology A Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus.
- n. The satellite of Saturn that is eighth in distance from the planet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of nudibranchiates, typical of the family Tethyidæ.
Wiktionary
- n. Greek mythology Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
- n. geology A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
- n. astronomy A moon of Saturn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.
WordNet 3.0
- n. type genus of the family Aplysiidae
- n. (Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Τηθύς. (Wiktionary)
- Latin Tēthys, from Greek Tēthus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Keller c.s. deny that the iridium rich ejecta layer in the Pacific, Western Interior and the Tethys is the Chicxulub distal ejecta layer.”
Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit
“DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN -- (Marketwire - March 29, 2010) - Tethys Petroleum Limited ( "Tethys" or the "Company" (TSX: TPL)) today updated on its Komsomolsk 200 ( "KOM200") gas appraisal well in Tajikistan which has now achieved a stable flow of gas following an open hole flowback test.”
“Tethys Petroleum Limited ( "Tethys" or the "Company") (TSX: TPL) today announced the initial results from the AKD02 (Doris) appraisal well on the Akkulka Block in Kazakhstan.”
“New features of this 'Tethys' version are: WMS-C support, new spatial authorities, WMS Search Server,”
“The newest version of Quantum GIS (1.5.0 'Tethys') was released on July 29th.”
“DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN -- (Marketwire - Aug. 5, 2009) - Tethys Petroleum Limited ( "Tethys" or the "Company") (TSX: TPL) today announced that drilling operations had commenced on the East Komsomolsk KOM200 appraisal well with the well being officially opened by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan, His Excellency Oqil Oqilov, and Dr David Robson, Chairman,”
“Petroleum Limited ( "Tethys" or the "Company") (TSX: TPL) is pleased to announce that it has completed an oil giant, said it has begun pumping oil from two newly drilled Mexico discoveries through an existing platform -- an increasingly common move to squeeze more oil out Chevron Thailand.”
“BOZOI, KAZAKHSTAN -- (Marketwire - Feb. 8, 2010) - Tethys Petroleum Limited ( "Tethys" or the”
“BOZOI, KAZAKHSTAN -- (Marketwire - Feb. 7, 2010) - Tethys Petroleum Limited ( "Tethys" or the”
“Am I speaking of the incestuous union of Oceanus and his sister Tethys?”
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LIT - Greco-Latin gods and heroes
Ganymede, Io, Olympia, Callisto, Hera, Kronos, Despoina, Hyades, Dyaus, Rhadamanthus, Semele, Leto and 198 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
abduct, abducting, abductor, Achaea, Achaean, Achilles, advise, Aegean, Aegean Sea, Aegina, aegis, Aeneas and 713 more...
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gods (2 syllable)
A list of mythological gods that people have worshipped throughout history (includes primordial deities).
They can be animate or inanimate (male or female). 2 syllables
Please C...Chaos, Chronos, Gaia, al-lat, Ishtar, Buddha, Shiva, Atlas, Tethys, Kronos, Hera, Ares and 29 more...
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Legendary Creatures of the Sea
And other bodies of water.
sea god, sea-goddess, Neptune, Amphitrite, Triton, Nereus, Oceanus, Proteus, Tethys, Doris, Manannan, manawydan and 51 more...
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