Achilles
/əˈkɪliːz/
Achilles proper noun: a mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
Proper noun
Achilles
- A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
- Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!1715, Homer, chapter 1, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.
Achilles meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian
Achilles in Hindi
- Greek mythical hero
- अकिलीज़ akilīz
Achilles in Tamil
- ஒருவகை குறுங்கோள்
Achilles in Arabic
- Greek mythical hero
- أَخِيل ʔaḵīl
Achilles in Indonesian
- Greek mythical hero
- Achilles
More languagesFewer languages
- Achilles in Vietnamese
- A-sin
- Achilles in Myanmar
- အာခိလိ ahki.li., အခိလေဝ a.hki.lewa., အာခိလျု ahki.lyu., အခိလေး a.hki.le:
Examples of Achilles in a sentence
- If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and...
- In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books)...
Forms of Achilles
| alternative form | Achilleus |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Akhilles |
| alternative form | Akhilleus |
Origin of Achilles
Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
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Questions about Achilles
- What does Achilles mean?
- Achilles means a mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
- What is Achilles in Hindi?
- Achilles in Hindi is अकिलीज़ (akilīz). See Achilles meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Achilles in a sentence?
- If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.
- What part of speech is Achilles?
- Achilles is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Achilles?
- Achilles is pronounced /əˈkɪliːz/ (UK).
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Achilles (page history and authors); achilles (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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