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Zeus

Definition: Zeus

Zeus

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) the supreme god of ancient mythology; son of Rhea and Cronus whom he dethroned; husband and brother of Hera; brother of Poseidon and Hades; father of many gods.

2. Type genus of the family Zeidae.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Zeus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to shine", "the sky".

Date "Zeus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Specialty Definition: Zeus

DomainDefinition

Satire

ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Computing

Zeus Berkeley Yacc. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Literature

Zeus (1 syl.). The Grecian Jupiter. The word means the "living one." (Sanskrit, Djaus, heaven.) (See Jupiter. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Zeus

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Zeus (Greek Zευς) or Dias (Greek Διας) ("divine king") is the leader of the gods and god of the sky and thunder in Greek mythology, equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter or Jove and associated in the syncretic classical imagination with various other deities, such as the Egyptian Ammon, Etruscan Tinia, and perhaps even in Hindu Dyaus Pitar.

Worship of Zeus originated among the Mycenean heirs of Minoans, where he was known as the Earthshaker.

Zeus Ceneus was a frequent epithet of Zeus', referring to a temple on Cape Canaeum of Euboea. Another epithet was Zeus Panhellenios, ('Zeus of all the Hellenes'), to whom Aeacus' famous temple on Aegina was founded as well as Zeus Lycaeus, in which he was the god of the sun and light (see also Lycaon and that section below). He (along with Dionysus) absorbed the role of the chief Phrygian god Sabazios in the syncretic deity known in Rome as Sabazius.

Role

Zeus' role in the Greek Olympic pantheon can not be overstated. He fathered many of the heroes and heroines (see list at bottom of article) and was featured in many of their stories. Though he was the god of the sky and thunder, he was also the most supreme cultural artifact; in some senses, he was the embodiment of Greek religious beliefs and the archetypal Greek deity. For example, in much of Greek literature, Zeus was seen as the patron of hospitality and guests and the keeper of oaths. Liars who were exposed were made to dedicate a statue to Zeus, often at the sanctuary of Olympia.

Worship

In Epirus, there was an oracle devoted to Zeus called Dodona. The shrine of Dodona is extremely ancient, and dates to pre-Hellenic times. Originally, the oracle was both Zeus' and the Earth Mother's. The Earth Mother eventually earned the name Dione and was relegated to a minor or nonexistent part elsewhere in the Greek pantheon. Only at Dodona did she retain her position, as votive inscriptions found at the site attest.

In the 2nd millennium BC, the cult of the holy beech or oak tree sprung up at Dodona. By the thirteenth and fourteenth century BCEE, priests had begun to interpret the rustling of the oak or beech leaves to determine the future. When Homer wrote the Iliad (circa 750 BCE), no buildings were present and the priests slept on the ground. By the time Herodotus wrote about Dodona, female priestesses called peleiades had replaced the male priests. A much later story, Jason and the Argonauts mentioned that Jason's ship, the Argos, had the gift of prophecy because it was made out of oak wood from Dodona.

Jupiter

In Roman mythology, Jupiter (Jove) held the same role as Zeus in the Greek pantheon. He was called Jupiter Optimus Maximus as the patron deity of the Roman Empire, in charge of laws and social order.

Other Titles:

  1. Jupiter Caelestis ("heavenly")
  2. Jupiter Fulgurator ("of the lightning")
  3. Jupiter Latarius ("God of Latium")
  4. Jupiter Lucetius ("of the light")
  5. Jupiter Pluvius ("sender of rain") See also Pluvius
  6. Jupiter Stator (from stare meaning "standing")
  7. Jupiter Terminus or Jupiter Terminalus (defends boundaries)
  8. Jupiter Totans ("thunderer")
  9. Jupiter Victor (led Roman armies to victory)

Jupiter had an affair with Juturna but the secret was betrayed by a nymph named Lara, whom Jupiter struck with muteness as punishment.

Birth and Childhood

Birth

Cronus sired several children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own son as he had overthrown his own father. But when Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Uranus and Earth to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he promptly swallowed.

Childhood

Then Rhea hid Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida in Crete. According to varying versions of the story:

  1. He was then raised by Gaia.
  2. He was raised by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Koryvandes, soldiers, or smaller gods danced, shouted and clapped their hands to make noise so that Cronus would not hear the baby's cry.
  3. He was raised by a nymph named Adamanthea. Since Cronus ruled over the Earth, the heavens and the sea, she hid him by dangling him on a rope from a tree so he was suspended between earth, sea and sky and thus, invisible to his father.
  4. He was raised by a nymph named Cynosura. In gratitude, Zeus placed her among the stars after her death.
  5. He was raised by Melissa, who nursed him with goat-milk

Zeus Becomes King Of The Gods

After reaching manhood, Zeus forced Cronus to disgorge the other children in reverse order of swallowing: first the stone, which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, then the rest. In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open. Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes, from their dungeon in Tartarus; he killed their guard, Campe. As gratitude, the Cyclopes gave him thunder and the thunderbolt and lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia. Together, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, along with the Gigantes, Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans.

After the battle with the Titans, Zeus shared the world with his elder brothers, Poseidon and Hades by drawing lots: Zeus got the land, Poseidon the sea and Hades the world of the shadows (the dead). (See also: Penthus)

Soon after taking the throne as King of the gods, Zeus fought the monsters Typhon and Echidna, defeating them. He left them and their children alive as challenges for future heroes.

Adulthood

Zeus was brother and husband of Hera. Their son was Hephaistos. Zeus is famous for his many extramarital affairs with various goddesses - notably Demeter, Latona, Dione and Maia -- and mortal women -- notably Semele, Io, Europa and Leda (for more details, see "Affairs" below). His wife, Hera, was very jealous and consistently tried to harm Zeus' mistresses and their children by him. For a time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from his affairs by incessantly talking. When Hera discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only speak the words of others (hence our modern word "echo").

Though Zeus was often petty and malicious, he also had a righteous streak, perhaps best exemplified in his aid on behalf of Atreus and his murder of Capaneus for unbridled arrogance.

Zeus turned Pandareus to stone for stealing a bronze dog from one of his temples on Crete.

Zeus killed Salmoneus with a thunderbolt for attempting to equal him, riding around on a bronze chariot and loudly imitating thunder.

As a child, Zeus had had a friend named Celmis. Many years later, Rhea became offended by the antics of Celmis and asked Zeus to turn him into a lump of steel or diamond. Zeus obliged.

Zeus turned Periphas into an eagle after his death, as a reward for being righteous and just.

At the marriage of Zeus and Hera, a nymph named Chelone was disrespectful (or refused to attend). Zeus condemned her to eternal silence.

When Memnon died, Zeus felt pity for his mother, Eos, the dawn-goddess, and granted him immortality.

Zeus made the decision to marry Aphrodite off to Hephaestus in order to prevent violence over her between the many gods who lusted after the goddess of beauty.

Zeus, with Hera, turned King Haemus and Queen Rhodope into mountains (Balkan and Despoto, respectively) for their vanity.

Zeus exchanged a caduceus for the first flute with Hermes.

Zeus turned Atalanta and Hippomenes (or Melanion) into lions because they had sex in one of his temples.

Lycaon

Lycaon, son of Pelasgus and Meliboea was the mythical first king of Arcadia. He was the father of Callisto and, according to some, he raised her son Arcas. He, or his fifty impious sons, entertained Zeus and set before him a dish of human flesh; the god pushed away the dish in disgust and either killed the king and his sons by lightning or turned them into wolves (Apollodorus iii. 8 ; Ovid, Metamorphoses i. 198). Some say that Lycaon slew and dished up his own son Nyctimus (Clem. Alex. Protrept. ii. 36 ; Nonnus, Dionys. xviii. 20 ; Arnobius iv. 24).

Pausanias (viii. 2) says that Lycaon sacrificed a child to Zeus on the altar on mount Lycaeus, and immediately after the sacrifice was turned into a wolf. This gave rise to the story that a man was turned into a wolf at each annual sacrifice to Zeus Lycaeus, but recovered his human form if he abstained from human flesh for ten years. The oldest city, the oldest cult (that of Zeus Lycaeus), and the first civilization of Arcadia are attributed to Lycaon. His story has been variously interpreted. According to Weizsäcker, he was an old Pelasgian or pre-Hellenic god, to whom human sacrifice was offered, bearing a non-Hellenic name similar to Avkos, whence the story originated of his metamorphosis into a wolf. His cult was driven out by that of the Hellenic Zeus, and Lycaon himself was afterwards represented as an evil spirit, who had insulted the new deity by setting human flesh before him. Robertson Smith considers the sacrifices offered to the wolf-Zeus in Arcadia to have been originally cannibal feasts of a wolf-tribe, who recognized the wolf as their totem. Usener and others identify Lycaon with Zeus Lycaeus, the god of light, who slays his son Nyctimus (the dark) or is succeeded by him, in allusion to the perpetual succession of night and day. According to Ed. Meyer, the belief that Zeus Lycaeus accepted human sacrifice in the form of a wolf was the origin of the myth that Lycaon, the founder of his cult, became a wolf, i.e. participated in the nature of the god by the act of sacrifice, as did all who afterwards duly performed it.

Tiresias

As a young man, Tiresias found two snakes mating and hit them with a stick. He was then transformed into a woman. Seven years later, Tiresias did the same thing again and became a man again. A time later, Zeus and Hera asked him which sex, male or female, experienced more pleasure during sexual intercourse. Zeus claimed it was women and vice versa. Tiresias sided with Zeus. Hera struck him blind. Since Zeus could not undo what she had done, he gave him the gift of prophecy.

Affairs

Callisto/Arcas

Arcas was the son of Zeus and the nymph Callisto, whom Hera turned into a bear. Arcas unknowningly attempted to kill his mother during a hunt, not recognizing her. Zeus put them both in the sky as Ursa Major (Callisto) and Ursa Minor (Arcas).

An alternate version: One of Artemis' companions, Callisto lost her virginity to Zeus, who had come disguised as Artemis. Enraged, Artemis changed her into a bear. Callisto's son, Arcas, nearly killed his mother while hunting, but Zeus or Artemis stopped him and placed them both in the sky as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

Alcmene/Heracles

Heracles was a son of Zeus and Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon. Zeus seduced Alcmene in the disguise of her husband.

One account of the origin of the Milky Way is that Zeus had tricked Hera into nursing the infant Heracles: discovering who he was, she had pulled him from her breast, and a spurt of her milk formed the smear across the sky that can be seen to this day.

Aegina

He wooed Aegina, daughter of Asopus by abducting her and taking her to an island near Attica, thereafter known by her name. Kidnapping was a frequent method of Zeus' to attract women. Aegina eventually gave birth to a son Aeacus, who became king of the island.

Taygete

Zeus pursued Taygete, one of the Pleiades, who prayed to Artemis. The goddess turned Taygete into a doe but Zeus raped her when she was unconscious. She thus conceived Lacedaemon, the mythical founder of Sparta.

Elara

Zeus hid one lover, Elara, from Hera by hiding her under the earth. His son by Elara, the giant Tityas, is therefore sometimes said to be a son of Gaia, the earth goddess, and Elara.

Asteria

When Zeus pursued Asteria, she flung herself into the ocean to escape him and became the island of the same name. Alternatively, she changed herself into a quail to avoid him.

Danae

Disappointed by his lack of male heirs, King Acrisius of Argos asked an oracle if this would change. The oracle told him that one day he would be killed by his daughter's child. She was childless and, meaning to keep her so, he shut her up in a bronze tower or cave. But Zeus came to her in the form of rain or a shower of gold, and impregnated her. Soon after, their child Perseus was born.

None too happy, but unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing his offspring, Acrisius cast the two into the sea in a wooden chest. The sea was calmed by Poseidon at the request of Zeus and the pair survived. They washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where they were taken in by Dictys, the brother of King Polydectes, who raised the boy to manhood.

Io

Zeus loved the Argive princess Io and changed her into a cow to protect her from Hera. Hera suspected his deception and asked for the cow as a present. Zeus was unable to refuse and she placed the watchman Argus to guard the cow. Hermes, at the request of Zeus, lulled Argus to sleep and rescued Io but Hera sent a gadfly to sting her as she wandered the Earth in cow form. Zeus eventually changed her back to human form, and she became, through her son with Zeus, Epaphus, the ancestress of Heracles.

Lamia

Lamia was a queen of Libya, whom Zeus loved. Hera turned her into a monster (or she killed Lamia's children and the grief turned her into a monster) and murdered their children. Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children. Zeus gave her the gift to be able to take her eyes out to rest, and then put them back in. Lamia was envious of other mothers and ate their children.

Ganymede

Eos, the goddess of the dawn, kidnapped Ganymede and Tithonus to be her lovers. Zeus decided he wanted the beautiful youth Ganymede for himself but to repay Eos he promised to fulfill one wish. She asked for Tithonus to be immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lived forever but grew more and more ancient, eventually turning into a cricket. Ganymede became Zeus' cupbearer.

Consorts/Children

  1. Deific Mother
    1. Aegina
      1. Aeacus
    2. Ananke
      1. Adrasteia
      2. Moirae
        1. Atropos
        2. Clotho
        3. Lachesis
    3. Demeter
      1. Dionysus
      2. Persephone
    4. Dione
      1. Aphrodite
    5. Eos
      1. Ersa
    6. Eris
      1. Ate
      2. Litae
    7. Hera
      1. Ares
      2. Eileithyia
      3. Hephaestus
      4. Hebe
    8. Leto
      1. Apollo
      2. Artemis
    9. Maia
      1. Hermes
    10. Metis
      1. Athena
    11. Mnemosyne
      1. Muses (Original three)
        1. Aoide
        2. Melete
        3. Mneme
      2. Muses (Later nine)
        1. Calliope
        2. Clio
        3. Erato
        4. Euterpe
        5. Melpomene
        6. Polyhymnia
        7. Terpsichore
        8. Thalia
        9. Urania
    12. Selene
      1. Nemean Lion
      2. Pandia
    13. Thalassa
      1. Aphrodite
    14. Themis
      1. Astraea
      2. Dike
      3. Horae
        1. First Generation
          1. Auxo
          2. Carpo
          3. Thallo
        2. Second Generation
          1. Dike
          2. Eirene
          3. Eunomia
      4. Moirae
        1. Atropos
        2. Clotho
        3. Lachesis
  2. Mortal/Nymph/Other Mother
    1. Aegina
      1. Aeacus
    2. Alcmene
      1. Heracles
    3. Antiope
      1. Amphion
      2. Zethus
    4. Callisto
      1. Arcas
    5. Carme
      1. Britomartis
    6. Danae
      1. Perseus
    7. Elara
      1. Tityas
    8. Electra
      1. Dardania
      2. Harmonia
      3. Iasion
    9. Europa
      1. Minos
      2. Rhadamanthys
      3. Sarpedon
    10. Eurynome
      1. Charites
        1. Aglaea
        2. Euphrosyne
        3. Thalia
    11. Himalia
      1. Cronius
    12. Iodame
      1. Thebe
    13. Io
      1. Epaphus
    14. Lamia
      1. ???
    15. Laodamia
      1. Sarpedon
    16. Leda
      1. Polydeuces
      2. Helen
    17. Maera
      1. Locrus
    18. Niobe
      1. Argos
      2. Pelasgus
    19. Olympias
      1. Alexander the Great

    20. Plouto
      1. Tantalus
    21. Podarge
      1. Balius
      2. Xanthus
    22. Pyrrha
      1. Hellen
    23. Semele
      1. Dionysus
    24. Taygete
      1. Lacedaemon
    25. Thalia
      1. Palici
  3. Male lovers
    1. Ganymede
  4. Unknown Mother
    1. Nemesis
    2. Tyche

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zeus."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Zeus

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ZEUS

EnglishZero and low Emission vehicles in Urban SocietyN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Zeus

Synonym: genus Zeus (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Zeus

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Jupiter

Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Zeus

English words defined with "Zeus": Aides, Aidoneus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, AtlasCloud-compeller, Cora, Cronus, CythereaDespoinaEpimetheusHades, Hebe, Helen, Helen of Troy, Hera, here, HyadesIoJove, JupiterKoreLatona, Leda, LetoMinos, MuseOlympian Games, Olympic gamesPandora, Pandora's box, Persephone, Perseus, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, PrometheusRheaSarpedon, Semele, SisyphusTantalus, titan. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Zeus": Achemon, Amalthea's HornBerkeley YaccCuretesDanae, Dionysos, DodonaGiants' War with Jove, GodsHundred-handedOlympian, Olympian JoveWooden Wall. (references)
Etymologies containing "Zeus": Dianthus. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Zeus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (Zeus), Albanian (Zeus), Czech (Zeus), Dutch (Zeus), French (Zeus), German (Zeus), Italian (Zeus), Portuguese (zeus), Romanian (jove), Spanish (Zeus), Swedish (Zeus), Turkish (Zeus).

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Modern Usage: Zeus

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'll make them let you go. Zeus! Zeus, you hear me? (Xanadu; writing credit: Richard Christian Danus; Marc Reid Rubel)

Lyrics

He let loose like zeus with fire from his fingers (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince)

Movie/TV Titles

Zeus (2001)

Et Zeus se gratta la cuisse (1964)

Zeus and Roxanne (1997)

10-07: L'affaire Zeus (1995)

Let's Play Zeus (1994)

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Commercial Usage: Zeus

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Zeus

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Familiar Quotations: Zeus

AuthorQuotation

Aristophanes

[On the nightingale] Lord Zeus, listen to the little bird's voice; he has filled the whole thicket with honeyed song.

Homer

A dream, too, is from Zeus.
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed.
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
No mortal could vie with Zeus, for his mansions and his possessions are deathless.
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings -- their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

Pindar

Zeus, accomplisher, to all grant grave restraint and attainment of sweet delight.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Zeus

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite. His name the smirking tourist scrawls Upon Minerva's temple walls, Where thundered once Olympian Zeus, And marks his appetite's abuse. Averil Joop

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Usage Frequency: Zeus

"Zeus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.13% of the time. "Zeus" is used about 155 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)96.13%14925,810
Noun (plural)3.23%5157,705
Noun (common)0.65%1339,140
                    Total100.00%155N/A

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Derived & Related Names: Zeus

"Zeus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to shine", "the sky".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Zeus."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
ZenobiaFemaleAncient GreekZeus
ZenoMaleAncient Greek (Latinized)Zeus
DianaFemaleEnglishZeus
ZeusMaleGreek MythologyN/A
DianaFemaleItalianZeus
TyrMaleNorse MythologyZeus
DianaFemalePortugueseZeus
DianaFemaleRoman MythologyZeus
JupiterMaleRoman MythologyZeus
DianaFemaleRomanianZeus
DianaFemaleRussianZeus
ZinaidaFemaleRussianZeus
DianaFemaleSpanishZeus
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Expressions: Zeus

Expressions using "Zeus": genus Zeus Zeus faber. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Zeus

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

zeus

1,067

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14

almighty zeus

526

saint seiya zeus

14

picture zeus

108

zeus game

14

greek god zeus

91

zeus motorcycle helmet

13

zeus helmet

68

del olimpo señor trucos zeus

13

god zeus

56

armotech g2 zeus

12

zeus master of olympus

51

pic zeus

11

cheat zeus

40

gun paintball zeus

11

statue of zeus

37

zeus paintball

11

zeus master of olympus cheat

27

hera son zeus

11

god greek picture zeus

27

zeus and roxanne

10

greek mythology zeus

26

hera and zeus

10

almighty zeus.com

25

studio zeus

10

temple of zeus

22

mighty zeus

9

zeus pro

20

olympia statue zeus

9

armotech zeus

18

son zeus

9

sister zeus

17

zeus web server

9

god picture zeus

16

cheat code zeus

9

g2 zeus

15

logo zeus

9

juice zeus

15

hifonics zeus

8
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Modern Translation: Zeus

Language Translations for "Zeus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏زيوس كبير الآلهة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Зевс. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(bream, Zeus japanicus). (various references)

   

Czech

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Zeŭso. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

زاوش رءیس خدایان یونانی . (various references)

   

French

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

German

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Ζεύσ (Jupiter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Zeusz. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

セ氏 (Celsius, Centigrade, gelatin, general contractor, general manager, general strike, jelly, Jerry, major construction contractor, seminar, zebra crossing, zebra zone, zero). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゼウス . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

euszay

   

Portuguese

  

zeus. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Зевс. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zevs. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Zeus. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เทพเจ้าเซอุสเป็นเทพแห่งท้องฟ้าหรือสวรรค์. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Zeus, Jüpiter (jove, Jupiter). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

Зевс. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thần vương. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Zeus

Misspellings

"Zeus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aeuc, Equs, Ezeiza, zaus, zeis, zeks, zeos, zeu, Zsuzsi, zues, Zuev, zus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Zeus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-s-u-z"

-1 letter: sue, use.

-2 letters: es, us.

 Words containing the letters "e-s-u-z"
 

+1 letter: fuzes, zebus.

 

+2 letters: azures, buzzes, furzes, futzes, fuzees, fuzzes, gauzes, lutzes, ouzels, putzes.

 

+3 letters: buzzers, defuzes, guzzles, klutzes, mezuzas, muzzles, nudzhes, nuzzles, outsize, puzzles, quezals, quizzes, seizure, soyuzes, squeeze, subzero, subzone, touzles, unsized, upgazes, wurzels, zealous, zestful, zeugmas, zonules, zouaves.

 

+4 letters: azurites, bejeezus, beziques, brulzies, caziques, deutzias, dualizes, furziest, fuzziest, gauziest, guzzlers, kreuzers, kunzites, mezquits, mezuzahs, muezzins, muzziest, muzzlers, nuzzlers, outsized, outsizes, puzzlers, quartzes, quetzals, quezales, quizzers, scuzzier, seizures, squeezed, squeezer, squeezes, suberize, subzones, surprize, suzerain, unitizes, unseized, utilizes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Derived from
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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