Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Greek Mythology A Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus.
  • noun A satellite of Saturn.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of nudibranchiates, typical of the family Tethyidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.

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  • proper noun Greek mythology Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
  • proper noun geology A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.
  • proper noun astronomy A moon of Saturn.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the family Aplysiidae
  • noun (Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin Tēthys, from Greek Tēthus.]

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From Ancient Greek Τηθύς.

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