Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The mythological war of the giants against Zeus, symbolizing the antagonism between terrestrial and oceanic and celestial forces: a favorite subject in all departments of ancient classical art. Its most noteworthy examples are among the sculptures, now at Berlin, discovered in 1875 and later at Pergamum by the Germans. The legs of the giants were generally represented as serpents, the heads of which occupied the place of feet. See cut under
Pergamene .
Wiktionary
- n. mythology In Greek mythology, the uprising of the Gigantes against the Olympian gods.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.
Etymologies
- giganto- 'giant' + -machy 'war'. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The only people who won't like this site are morosophs and misosophs! cynartomachy -- bear-baiting using dogs gigantomachy -- war of giants against the gods pneumatomachy -- denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost Link”
“The subject is the gigantomachy, i.e., the battle between the gods and the rebellious sons of earth (cf. page 134).”
“We have therefore here a scene from one of the favorite subjects of Greek art at all periods -- the gigantomachy, or battle of gods and giants.”
“The frieze from Priene representing a gigantomachy was not a part of the temple there (Wolters, _Jahrbuch des deutschen arch.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gigantomachy’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
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Relating To: The Sky
Words of, about, or relating to the heavens.
firmament, horizon, celestial, pleiades, supernal, welkin, cerulean, hypaethral, abatjour, upaithric, canopus, cerulific and 40 more...
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Cacotechny's list
cacodemoniac, alexikakon, hoplomachy, titanomachy, gigantomachy, gigantomachia, titanomachia, scelestic, caconym, obamanomics
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Unto God what is God's
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Fighting Words
Words that end in -machy.
cynarctomachy, alectoromachy, logomachy, monomachy, iconomachy, sciamachy, tauromachy, naumachy, gigantomachy, theomachy, psychomachy, batrachomyomachy and 6 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
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