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Tmolus

Tmolus proper noun: a king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.

Proper noun

Tmolus

  1. (Greek) A king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.
  2. A mountain, Mount Tmolus, the modern Bozdağ.
    • The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh]...

Origin of Tmolus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).

Questions about Tmolus

What does Tmolus mean?
Tmolus means a king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.
What part of speech is Tmolus?
Tmolus is a proper noun.

Words near Tmolus in the dictionary

  1. TMK
  2. tmkpr
  3. TMML
  4. TMNT
  5. TMO
  6. Tmolus
  7. TMOs
  8. TMP
  9. TMP-SMX
  10. TMPRSS2
  11. tmr

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