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Akhilles

Akhilles is the alternative form of Achilles.

Meaning of Achilles

Proper noun

Achilles

  1. (Greek) 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...
  2. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
  3. The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.

Questions about Akhilles

What is Akhilles the alternative form of?
Akhilles is the alternative form of Achilles.

Words near Akhilles in the dictionary

  1. Akhet
  2. Akhetaten
  3. Akhets
  4. akhi
  5. Akhil
  6. Akhilles
  7. akhirah
  8. akhis
  9. Akhisar
  10. Akhissar
  11. Akhmeta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Akhilles (page history and authors); Achilles (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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