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Definition: Peleus |
PeleusNoun1. A king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Peleus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"Peleus" is a common misspelling or typo for: Pales, Pellets, Piles, Poles. |
Crosswords: Peleus |
| English words defined with "Peleus": Thetis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Peleus": Pelides. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Peleus and Telamon, his brother, killed their half-brother, Phocus and fled Aegina to escape punishment. In Phthia, Peleus was purified by Eurytion and married Antigone, Eurytion's daughter. Peleus accidentally killed Eurytion during the hunt for the Calydonian Boar and fled Phthia.
Peleus was purifed of the murder of Eurytion in Iolcus by Acastus. In Iolcus, Peleus lost a wrestling match in the funeral games of Pelias, Acastus' father, to Atalanta. Astydameia, Acastus' wife, fell in love with Peleus but he scorned her. Bitter, she sent a messenger to Antigone to tell her that Peleus was to marry Acastus' daughter; Antigone hanged herself.
Astydameia then told Acastus that Peleus had tried to rape her. Acastus took Peleus on a hunting trip and hid his sword, then abandoned him right before a group of centaurs attacked. Chiron, the wise centaur, returned Peleus' sword and Peleus managed to escape. He pillaged Iolcus and dismembered Astydameia, then marched his army between the pieces.
After Antigone's death, Peleus married the sea-nymph Thetis and fathered Achilles by her. As a wedding present, Poseidon gave Peleus two immortal horses: Balius and Xanthus. Their wedding, however, was also the beginning of the quarrel that led to the judgement of Paris.
According to legend, Thetis had tried to make Achilles invincible by dipping him in the river Styx, but forgot to wet the heel she held him by, leaving him vulnerable so he could be killed by a blow to that heel. Homer, however, deliberately makes no mention of this; Achilles can not be a hero if he is not at risk. In an earlier and less popular version of the story, Thetis anointed the boy in ambrosia and put him on top of a fire to burn away the mortal parts of his body. She was interrupted by Peleus and abandoned both father and son in a rage. Peleus gave him to Chiron to raise.
There are two versions of Peleus' death.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peleus."
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Screenplays | All splendid lovers have just dreadful times! Uh, Peleus and Melicent Daphnis and Chloë History's just jammed with stories of lovers parted by some silly thing! (The Parent Trap; writing credit: Erich Kästner; David Swift) | |
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| "Peleus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peleus" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: peels, peles, pules, pulse, sleep, speel. | |
-2 letters: eels, else, lees, lues, peel, pees, pele, plus, pule, puls, seel, seep, slue, spue, supe. | |
-3 letters: eel, els, lee, leu, pee, pes, pul, pus, see, sel, sue, sup, ups, use. | |
-4 letters: el, es, pe, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: expulse, peepuls, repulse. | |
+2 letters: cupelers, decuples, deplumes, duplexes, eelpouts, epaulets, expulsed, expulses, outsleep, pepluses, pleasure, plexuses, preludes, prequels, pulsejet, repulsed, repulser, repulses, septuple, sextuple, spherule, superlie. | |
+3 letters: centuples, crepuscle, cupellers, decouples, drupelets, duplexers, empurples, encapsule, epilogues, expulsive, opercules, opulences, outsleeps, peculates, peduncles, peloruses, penuchles, penuckles, perilunes, pleasured, pleasures, plenteous, plumelets, precludes, preluders, prelusive, prunelles, pulsejets, pulverise, purselike, recouples, replunges, reposeful, repulsers, repulsive, septupled, septuples, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture, sextupled, sextuples, sextuplet, speculate, spelunked, spelunker, spherules, spleenful, superable, superglue, superlies, supermale, superreal, supersale, supersell, supremely, unpeoples, unpleased, upswelled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6C 65 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-.. . ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e l e u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006C 0065 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507178718785 |
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