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klepsydra

klepsydra is the alternative form of clepsydra.

Meaning of clepsydra

Noun

clepsydra (plural clepsydras or clepsydrae)

  1. Synonym of water clock, especially (historical) ancient Greek and Roman forms.
    • "The dull, unflavoured drops from life's clepsydra".1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 124
    Synonyms:
    water clock

Forms of klepsydra

pluralklepsydras
pluralklepsydrae

Questions about klepsydra

What is klepsydra the alternative form of?
Klepsydra is the alternative form of clepsydra.

Words near klepsydra in the dictionary

  1. Klepper
  2. Kleppers
  3. Kleppes
  4. Kleppinger
  5. klepsudra
  6. klepsydra
  7. klepsydrae
  8. klepsydras
  9. klepta
  10. kleptarchies
  11. kleptarchy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: klepsydra (page history and authors); clepsydra (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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