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Kalydôn

Kalydôn is the dated form of Calydon.

Meaning of Calydon

Proper noun

Calydon

  1. (historical) An Ancient Greek city in the country of Aetolia, north of the Gulf of Patras in western Greece, on the west bank of the river Evenus.
  2. (Greek, historical) The legendary founding king and eponym of the city of Calydon, whose failure to honor the goddess Artemis in a rite resulted in her sending the Calydonian Boar to lay waste to the city.

Questions about Kalydôn

What is Kalydôn the dated form of?
Kalydôn is the dated form of Calydon.

Words near Kalydôn in the dictionary

  1. Kalyan-Dombivali
  2. Kalyani
  3. Kalyanpur
  4. Kalydon
  5. Kalydonian
  6. Kalydôn
  7. Kalyke
  8. kalymauchia
  9. kalymauchion
  10. kalymauchions
  11. Kalymniot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kalydôn (page history and authors); Calydon (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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