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Kalydon

Kalydon is the alternative 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.

Words formed from Kalydon

Questions about Kalydon

What is Kalydon the alternative form of?
Kalydon is the alternative form of Calydon.

Words near Kalydon in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kalydon (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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