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CIRCE
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• CIRCE (noun)
The noun CIRCE has 1 sense:
1. (Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
Familiarity information: CIRCE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Circe" is a kind of...):
sorceress (a woman sorcerer)
Domain category:
Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)
Context examples
He felt a loathing for them such as Circe must have felt for her swine.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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