Word.ws English Dictionary

myrmidonian

/ˌmɜː(ɹ)mɪˈdəʊniən/

myrmidonian adjective: consisting of, or like, myrmidons.

Adjective

myrmidonian (comparative more myrmidonian, superlative most myrmidonian)

  1. Consisting of, or like, myrmidons.
    • Like furious rush'd the Myrmidonian crew1715–1720, Homer, “Book 16”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC

Forms of myrmidonian

comparativemore myrmidonian
superlativemost myrmidonian

Origin of myrmidonian

From myrmidon + -ian.

Questions about myrmidonian

What does myrmidonian mean?
Myrmidonian means consisting of, or like, myrmidons.
What part of speech is myrmidonian?
Myrmidonian is an adjective.
How do you pronounce myrmidonian?
Myrmidonian is pronounced /ˌmɜː(ɹ)mɪˈdəʊniən/.

Words near myrmidonian in the dictionary

  1. myrmeleontoids
  2. myrmicacin
  3. myrmicine
  4. myrmicines
  5. myrmidon
  6. myrmidonian
  7. myrmidons
  8. myrmillo
  9. myrmillones
  10. myrmillos
  11. myrmomancy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: myrmidonian (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:

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