Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology One of the Nereids, the wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In classical mythology, a marine goddess, who became the spouse of the mortal Peleus, despite her efforts to escape him by countless Protean transformations, and was by him the mother of Achilles.
- n. The seventeenth planetoid, discovered by Luther at Bilk in 1852.
Wiktionary
- n. Greek mythology One of the Nereids; the mother of Achilles
- n. astronomy 17 Thetis, the seventeenth asteroid of the Main Belt.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Greek mythology) one of the 50 Nereids; mother of Achilles by Peleus
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Θέτις. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Poem 64, a little mythological epic about Ariadne “embedded” in an ekphrastic poem framed by the wedding of Pelus and Thetis is the sort of charming and mannered writing that doesn’t electrify as much as elegant but contemporary-feeling metrical lyrics about stolen dinner napkins or buggering or hopeless love with an older married woman.”
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“HMS "Thetis" - Secrets and Scandal - Aftermath of a Disaster by David Roberts”
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“When I was in Thebes they told me about your love for a priestess called Thetis ...”
“‘When I was in Thebes they told me about your love for a priestess called Thetis ...’”
“The vessel in which the young sculptor sailed for Naples was called the Thetis, and the captain engaged to watch over him; the voyage was long, and all on board became fond of”
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“She was called the Thetis; a bust of the nymph was erected in the bows, and she carried a crew of seven men, including the captain.”
“It's there in her classic Ovidian tales of metamorphosis ( "Thetis", in which the slippery goddess feels "the surge of other shapes beneath my skin"; a poem on transmutation that opens, blandly, "Dusk, deserted road, and suddenly/I was a goat"), as well as in a fascination with borders: between countries; between poets (her 2002 collection, Tender Taxes, is a book-length engagement with Rilke); between the self and the world.”
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“Kelolo was not present. to translate when Abner found the excavation, and all Kelolo would say was, "Thetis," measuring the deep pit with his arms extended.”
“The little "Thetis" had throbbed and panted steadily.”
“Three vessels, the "Thetis," "Alert," and "Bear," left New York by order of the Navy Department to search for Lieutenant Greely and his party, comprising what is known as the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘Thetis’.
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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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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 dieties).
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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