Gorgon Definition

gôrgən
noun
Any of three sisters with snakes for hair, so horrible that the beholder is turned to stone.
Webster's New World
Any ugly, terrifying, or repulsive woman.
Webster's New World
adjective

Like a gorgon; very ugly or terrifying.

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Noun

Singular:
Gorgon
Plural:
gorgons

Origin of Gorgon

  • Middle English from Latin Gorgō Gorgon- from Greek from gorgos terrible

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek Γοργώ (Gorgō), from γοργός (gorgos, “terrible”).

    From Wiktionary

Gorgon Sentence Examples

  • He died from the bite of a serpent which sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa.

  • Here Perseus, returning from having slain the Gorgon, found her, slew the monster, set her free, and married her in spite of Phineus, to whom she had before been promised.

  • The Attic tradition, reproduced in Euripides (Ion 1002), regarded the Gorgon as a monster, produced by Gaea to aid her sons the giants against the gods and slain by Athena (the passage is a locus classicus on the aegis of Athena).

  • The story of the slaying of Medusa by Athena, in which there is no certain evidence that she played a direct part, explained by Roscher as the scattering of the storm-cloud, probably arose from the fact that she is represented as wearing the Gorgon's head as a badge.

  • She was represented standing, in a long tunic; on her head was a helmet, ornamented with sphinxes and griffins; on her breast was the aegis, fringed with serpents and the Gorgon's head in centre.

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