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Patrochilles

Patrochilles proper noun: the ship of characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

patrochilles: the ship of characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Image: Sosias (potter, signed). Painting attributed to the Sosias, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Patrochilles

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
    • Mainly because I want to cry and see Patrochilles in all their glory!2018, Nkiya Machona, quoted in Curiositales, September 2018, page 82
    • Perhaps even more problematically for the Patrochilles naysayers, is that this ambiguity throughout Homer's original epic is really not that ambiguous.2021, Amelia Koen, "An Olive Pit, A Lyre, A Fig", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 8, Semester 2 (2021), page 19

Origin of Patrochilles

Blend of Patroclus + Achilles.

Questions about Patrochilles

What does Patrochilles mean?
Patrochilles means the ship of characters Patroclus and Achilles from the novel The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
What part of speech is Patrochilles?
Patrochilles is a proper noun.

Words near Patrochilles in the dictionary

  1. patritumab
  2. patrivirilocal
  3. patrix
  4. Patrixbourne
  5. patro-
  6. Patrochilles
  7. patrocinate
  8. patrocinated
  9. patrocination
  10. patrocinations
  11. patrocinium

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