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Teiresias

Teiresias is the alternative form of Tiresias.

Meaning of Tiresias

Proper noun

Tiresias

  1. (Greek) A long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny.
    • […]somewhere a ship's radio was blaring out the latest jazz-hit to reach Alexandria:
      Old Tiresias / No one half so breezy as, / Half so free and easy as / Old Tiresias.1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar, page 35

Questions about Teiresias

What is Teiresias the alternative form of?
Teiresias is the alternative form of Tiresias.

Words near Teiresias in the dictionary

  1. teinture
  2. teintures
  3. teip
  4. teips
  5. Teiresian
  6. Teiresias
  7. TEIs
  8. Teise
  9. Teisen
  10. teishoku
  11. teishoku-ya

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