Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A monster with 100 heads, thrown by Zeus into Tartarus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek myth, a son of Typhoëus, and the father of the winds: later confused with Typhos or Typhoëus.
- noun The Greek name of the Egyptian divinity Set, the personification of the principle of evil.
- noun A large East Indian heron, Ardea sumatrana.
- noun A whirl wind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class. Mythol.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him.
- noun obsolete A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.
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- proper noun Greek mythology A
monster with 100 heads.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads who breathed out flames; son of Typhoeus and father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx
Etymologies
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Examples
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The stories in Typhon focus on some heavy themes, and aren't for the squeamish.
Boing Boing 2008
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The Gorn, the Romulan Star Empire, the Tzenkethi, the Breen, the Tholians, and the Kinshaya had united in what they were calling the Typhon Pact, posing an external threat that could distract the Federation from its vital recovery work.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009
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The Gorn, the Romulan Star Empire, the Tzenkethi, the Breen, the Tholians, and the Kinshaya had united in what they were calling the Typhon Pact, posing an external threat that could distract the Federation from its vital recovery work.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009
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In Egypt the Scorpion first ruled, the sign next the Balance, and long the chief of the Winter signs; and then the Polar Bear or Ass, called Typhon, that is, _deluge_, on account of the rains which inundated the earth while that constellation domineered.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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If the word Typhon is derived from _Tupoul_, it signifies a tree which produces apples (_mala_, evils), the Jewish origin of the fall of man.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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In Egypt it was at first the Scorpion, first zodiacal sign after Libra, and for a long time chief of the winter signs; then it was the Bear, or the polar Ass, called Typhon, that is to say, deluge, ** on account of the rains which deluge the earth during the dominion of that star.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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Once the new Senate had convened, she’d revealed her negotiations with the Breen, Gorn, Kinshaya, Tholians, and Tzenkethi, and her radical plan for the Romulan Star Empire to join them in a new entity she called the Typhon Pact.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Once the new Senate had convened, she’d revealed her negotiations with the Breen, Gorn, Kinshaya, Tholians, and Tzenkethi, and her radical plan for the Romulan Star Empire to join them in a new entity she called the Typhon Pact.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Once the new Senate had convened, she’d revealed her negotiations with the Breen, Gorn, Kinshaya, Tholians, and Tzenkethi, and her radical plan for the Romulan Star Empire to join them in a new entity she called the Typhon Pact.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Once the new Senate had convened, she’d revealed her negotiations with the Breen, Gorn, Kinshaya, Tholians, and Tzenkethi, and her radical plan for the Romulan Star Empire to join them in a new entity she called the Typhon Pact.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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