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Definition: Typhon |
TyphonNoun1. (Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads and one of the whirlwinds; son of Typhoeus and Echidna; father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Typhon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Typhon \Ty"phon\, noun. [from Greek expression. See Typhoon.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Geography | Name given to tropical cyclones of the China Sea and, more generally, of the North-West Pacific ; A cyclonic storm of the China Seas and the coasts of Japan which occur at the seasons of the changes of the monsoons. ; A Chinese term, now universally adopted, for tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific; Same as hurricane in the Atlantic and cyclone in the South-East Asia; -DDMG. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Typhon (Typhaon, Typhoeus, Typhus), in Greek mythology, was the youngest son of Gaia and Tartarus. Other accounts make the monster a son of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus. He is described as a vast grisly monster with a hundred serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus. In other accounts, he is confined in the land of the Arimi in Cilicia (Iliad, ii. 783) or under Etna (Aeschylus, P. V. 370) or in other volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions. Typhon is thus the chthonic figuration of volcanic forces, as Hephaestus (Roman Vulcan) is the Olympian manifestation. Amongst his children by Echidna are Cerberus, the serpent-like Lernaean hydra, and the Chimaera.
Typhon is also the father of hot dangerous winds (Greek "typhein" to smoke), which were extended by the Arabs to include the cyclonic storms of the Indian Ocean, hence English typhoon. Later Hellenistic writers identified Typhon with the Egyptian Set.
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Crosswords: Typhon |
| English words defined with "Typhon": Cerberus, Chimaera, Chimera ♦ sphinx. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Typhon": Birds ♦ Giants ♦ Typhoon'. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Typhon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (typhoon), Latin (whirlwind). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Typhon sur Nagasaki (1957) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
typhon | 34 |
lagoon typhon | 5 |
submarine typhon | 3 |
piaggio typhon | 2 |
gmc typhon | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Typhon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tyfon (typhoon), taifun (combination rope, combined rope, consisting of several strands each of which is itself formed from a combination of natural fibre or synthetic fibre yarns and steel wires, the wires being either galvanized or ungalvanized as required by the customer, typhoon, with or without a central core). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tyfoon (typhoon), taifoen (typhoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taifuuni (typhoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | typhon (typhoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Taifun (typhoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tifone (typhoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yphontay tufão (flaw, tornado). (various references) tifón (typhoon). (various references) tyfon (typhoon), taifun (typhoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Typhon": typhonic, typhons. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "Typhon" (pronounced 'Ty"phon'): Morphon, Phragmosiphon, Prosiphon, syphon. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: phyton, python. | |
| Words within the letters "h-n-o-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: phony. | |
-2 letters: hypo, phon, phot, pony, tony, toph, typo. | |
-3 letters: hon, hop, hot, hoy, hyp, noh, not, nth, opt, pht, poh, pot, tho, thy, ton, top, toy, yon. | |
-4 letters: ho, no, oh, on, op, oy, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-n-o-p-t-y" | |
+1 letter: phytons, pythons, typhons, typhoon. | |
+2 letters: hypnotic, neophyte, phytonic, pythonic, typhonic, typhoons. | |
+3 letters: antiphony, endophyte, hypnotics, hypnotism, hypnotist, hypnotize, hypotonia, hypotonic, neophytes, pantyhose, phenotype, phenytoin, polyantha, polyanthi, polythene, pythoness, sycophant, taphonomy, telephony, theophany, trophying. | |
+4 letters: atrophying, diphyodont, endophytes, endophytic, hypertonia, hypertonic, hypnotisms, hypnotists, hypnotized, hypnotizes, hypocenter, hypotenuse, hypotonias, neuropathy, nympholept, pennyworth, periphyton, phenocryst, phenotypes, phenotypic, phenytoins, polyanthas, polyanthus, polythenes, sycophants, symphonist, tryptophan. | |
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