Ajax Definition

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noun
The son of Telamon of Salamis and a warrior of great stature and prowess who fought against Troy.
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A strong, brave Greek warrior in the Trojan War who kills himself when Achilles' armor is given to Odysseus.
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The son of Ileus of Locris and a warrior of small stature and arrogant character who fought against Troy.
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One of the swiftest runners among the Greek warriors in the Trojan War.
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(poker slang) An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

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(computing) A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.

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(Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.

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(sports) Ajax Amsterdam.
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A town in Ontario, Canada.

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A ghost town in Utah.

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Ajax Sentence Examples

  • The contest between Ajax and Odysseus for his arms is also mentioned.

  • His chief exploits during the war were his defence of the wounded Sarpedon, his fight with Ajax, son of Telamon (his particular enemy), and the storming of the Greek ramparts.

  • Again, side by side with gods of superior rank, certain heroes were worshipped as protecting spirits of the country or state; such were the Aeacidae amongst the Aeginetans, Ajax son of Oileus amongst the Epizephyrian Locrians and Hector at Thebes.

  • The first five books, which cover the same ground as the Aethiopis of Arctinus of Miletus, describe the doughty deeds and deaths of Penthesileia the Amazon, of Memnon, son of the Morning, and of Achilles; the funeral games in honour of Achilles, the contest for the arms of Achilles and the death of Ajax.

  • In the time of Photius the poets usually studied at school were Homer, Hesiod, Pindar; certain select plays of Aeschylus (Prometheus, Septem and Persae), Sophocles (Ajax, Electra and Oedipus Tyrannus), and Euripides (Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae, and, next to these, Alcestis, Andromache, Hippolytus, Medea, Rhesus, Troades,) also Aristophanes (beginning with the Plutus), Theocritus, Lycophron, and Dionysius Periegetes.

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