Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Egyptian god of the moon and of wisdom and learning, usually represented as having the head and neck of an ibis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Egyptian divinity whom the Greeks assimilated to their Hermes (Mercury).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Myth.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the
Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb. - noun (Zoöl.) The Egyptian sacred baboon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The ancient
Egyptian moon god ofwisdom ,learning , andmagic , usually depicted as anibis orbaboon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Egyptian Moon deity with the head of an ibis; god of wisdom and learning and the arts; scribe of the gods
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Carvings in the Word of Thoth, and gorgeous drawings of landscapes and coastlines, mountains and waterfalls.
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Carvings in the Word of Thoth, and gorgeous drawings of landscapes and coastlines, mountains and waterfalls.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Carvings in the Word of Thoth, and gorgeous drawings of landscapes and coastlines, mountains and waterfalls.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Two of my star sign cards in Thoth are Pleasure and Debauchery.
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Yesterday, one of the riders in Thoth proposed to his ladyfriend in the crowd.
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And so he went in search of the one person in the world capable of reading the Word of Thoth: the Oracle of Siwa.
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You were put here to decode the Word of Thoth, then to die for the eternal benefit of Father del Piero and his friends.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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The Colossus entry is written in ‘Thoth I,’ the easiest dialect of the Word of Thoth.
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The Callimachus Text is written in the Word of Thoth—a most ancient and complicated language.
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It is a mysterious language known as the Word of Thoth.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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