Phaethon

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phaethon \Pha"["e]*thon\ (f[=a]"[-e]*th[o^]n), prop. n. [L.,
     Pha["e]thon (in sense 1), fr. Gr. Fae`qwn, fr. fae`qein,
     fa`ein, to shine. See {Phantom}.]
     1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Helios (Ph[oe]bus), that is, the
        son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained
        permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which


        his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he
        not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled
        headlong into the river Po.
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     2. (Zool.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic
        birds.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Phaethon
       n 1: (Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive
            his father's chariot and came too close to earth
       2: type genus of the Phaethontidae [syn: {genus Phaethon}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "Phaethon":
     Agdistis, Amen-Ra, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis,
     Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter,
     Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother,
     Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen,
     Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
     Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore,
     Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus,
     Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa,
     Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina,
     Proserpine, Ra, Rhea, Saturn, Savitar, Shamash, Sol, Surya, Tellus,
     Titan, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus