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Plouton

Plouton proper noun: synonym of Pluto (“the Greco-Roman god of the underworld”).

Proper noun

Plouton

  1. Synonym of Pluto (“the Greco-Roman god of the underworld”).
    • But were the tongue and tune of Orpheus mine, / So that to Koré crying, or her lord, / In hymns, from Hades I might rescue thee— / Down would I go, and neither Plouton’s dog / Nor Charon, he whose oar sends souls across, / Should stay me till again I made thee stand / Living, within the light!1871, Robert Browning, Balaustion’s Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 53
    • The first picture represents “The Going Down of Persephone,” and contains two figures, Plouton and Persephone. The story told in the finest of seed letters is: “Plouton, who sends up from the nether world the abundance of corn and wealth of produce, is on the point of taking Persephone down to his...1893 April 30, “Society”, in Sioux City Journal, number 7349, Sioux City, Ia.: Perkins Bros. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 2, page 9, column 6
    Synonyms:
    Pluto

Examples of Plouton in a sentence

  • The first picture represents “The Going Down of Persephone,” and contains two figures, Plouton and Persephone.1893 April 30, “Society”, in Sioux City Journal, number 7349, Sioux City, Ia.: Perkins Bros. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 2, page 9, column 6:
  • The new twist is introduced in the course of a short and seemingly trivial conversation between two slaves, Xanthias and one of Plouton’s servants.2013, Mark Griffith, “What Happens in Frogs? (The Plot)”, in Aristophanes’ Frogs (Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature), New York...

Synonyms of Plouton

Origin of Plouton

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn). Doublet of Pluto.

Questions about Plouton

What does Plouton mean?
Plouton means synonym of Pluto (“the Greco-Roman god of the underworld”).
How do you use Plouton in a sentence?
The first picture represents “The Going Down of Persephone,” and contains two figures, Plouton and Persephone.
What part of speech is Plouton?
Plouton is a proper noun.

Words near Plouton in the dictionary

  1. ploutering
  2. plouters
  3. ploutocracy
  4. ploutocrat
  5. ploutocrats
  6. Plouton
  7. ploutonia
  8. Ploutonian
  9. ploutonion
  10. Ploutos
  11. Plouëc-du-Trieux

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