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prometheus

Pro·me·the·us
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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [pruh-mee-thee-uh s, -thyoos]
    • /prəˈmi θi əs, -θyus/
    • /prə.ˈmiː.θɪ.əs/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pruh-mee-thee-uh s, -thyoos]
    • /prəˈmi θi əs, -θyus/

Definitions of prometheus word

  • noun prometheus a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules. 1
  • noun Definition of prometheus in Technology (language)   A programmaing language geared for logic, mathematics, AI, and string, list and database processing. Prometheus runs on a variety of platforms from Macintosh to MS-DOS 1
  • noun prometheus a Titan, who stole fire from Olympus to give to mankind and in punishment was chained to a rock, where an eagle tore at his liver until Hercules freed him 0
  • noun prometheus a Titan who steals fire from heaven for the benefit of mankind: in punishment, Zeus chains him to a rock where a vulture (or eagle) comes each day to eat his liver, which grows back each night 0
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Parts of speech for Prometheus

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prometheus popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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  • pandora

    Classical Mythology. the first woman, created by Hephaestus, endowed by the gods with all the graces and treacherously presented to Epimetheus along with a box (originally a jar) in which Prometheus had confined all the evils that could trouble humanity. As the gods had anticipated, Pandora gave in to her curiosity and opened the box, allowing the evils to escape, thereby frustrating the efforts of Prometheus. In some versions, the box contained blessings, all of which escaped but hope.

  • promethea moth

    a silkworm moth, Callosamia promethea, having reddish-brown wings, each with a border of white or yellow, the larvae of which feed on spicebush and other lauraceous plants.

  • promethean

    of or suggestive of Prometheus.

  • atlas

    An atlas is a book of maps.

  • deucalion

    the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women

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