Word.ws English Dictionary

Chloris

/ˈklɔːɹɪs/

Chloris proper noun: a nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.

chloris: a nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of...
Image: Ntennis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Chloris

  1. (Greek) A nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.
  2. (Greek) One of the Niobids.
  3. (Greek) The wife of Neleus.
  4. (Greek) The mother of Mopsus.
  5. 410 Chloris, a main-belt asteroid.

Origin of Chloris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χλωρίς (Khlōrís, literally “Greenfinch”), from χλωρός (khlōrós, “greenish-yellow, pale green”).

Words that rhyme with Chloris

Questions about Chloris

What does Chloris mean?
Chloris means a nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.
What part of speech is Chloris?
Chloris is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Chloris?
Chloris is pronounced /ˈklɔːɹɪs/.

Words near Chloris in the dictionary

  1. chloriodides
  2. chloriodine
  3. chlorion
  4. chlorions
  5. chloriridovirus
  6. Chloris
  7. chlorisondamine
  8. chloristic
  9. chlorite
  10. chlorites
  11. chloritic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Chloris (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Chloris.wav.

Cite this entry: “Chloris.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chloris. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.