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Tyches

Tyches is the plural of Tyche.

Meaning of Tyche

Proper noun

Tyche (plural Tychai or Tyches)

  1. (Greek, singular) The goddess of luck/fortune; counterpart of the Roman Fortuna.
    • The goddess Tyche was a very important deity in the Hellenistic world.¹⁵ "She was not blind chance, but some order of affairs that men could not comprehend."¹⁹ Tyche played her part in great events and in small ones[…].1933, Richard Mansfield Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus, Johns Hopkins Press, page 12
  2. (Hellenistic period) Any of several city goddesses, typically regarded as aspects of the goddess of fortune.
    • Tyche of Antioch
  3. The main belt asteroid 258 Tyche.

Questions about Tyches

What is Tyches the plural of?
Tyches is the plural of Tyche.

Words near Tyches in the dictionary

  1. Tyburski
  2. Tyburskis
  3. Tycen
  4. Tychai
  5. Tyche
  6. Tyches
  7. Tychicus
  8. tychism
  9. tychisms
  10. tychist
  11. tychists

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