Typhon Definition

tīfŏn
noun
A monster with 100 heads, thrown by Zeus into Tartarus.
American Heritage
A monster, variously regarded as a son of Typhoeus or as Typhoeus himself.
Webster's New World

(obsolete) A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.

Wiktionary
pronoun

(Greek mythology) The most powerful and feared of all Greek monsters, having the head, arms, and torso of a man, and his bottom half consisting of countless dragons or serpents. Some stories also say that his hands ended in serpents as well, and that he bears 100 heads. He is shrouded in giant wings, his eyes blazed a white fire, and his arms reached towards the stars.

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Origin of Typhon

  • Perhaps from Ancient Greek Τυφῶν (Tuphōn, “Typhon, father of the winds")- but see typhoon.

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek Tuphōn dheub- in Indo-European roots

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

  • From Ancient Greek Τυφῶν (Tuphon).

    From Wiktionary

Typhon Sentence Examples

  • Hathor, his mother, is persecuted by Typhon and escapes to a floating island with the bones of Horus, who revives and slays the dragon.'

  • Typhon slays Horus.

  • The Egyptians attributed to it, as well as to the tambourine, the power of dispersing and terrifying evil spirits and more especially the Typhon.

  • The Aegyptus sive de providentia is an allegory in which the good Osiris and the evil Typhon, who represent Aurelian and the Goth Gainas (ministers under Arcadius), strive for mastery; and the question of the divine permission of evil is handled.

  • Osiris, Horus, Typhon (Seth), Isis and Nephthys were the children of Seb (whom the Greeks identified with Cronus); the myths of their birth were peculiarly savage and obscene.

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