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MORPHEUS
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• MORPHEUS (noun)
The noun MORPHEUS has 1 sense:
1. the Roman god of sleep and dreams
Familiarity information: MORPHEUS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Roman god of sleep and dreams
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)
Domain category:
Ovid; Publius Ovidius Naso (Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17))
Context examples
If I don't sleep at once, chloral, the modern Morpheus! I must be careful not to let it grow into a habit. No, I shall take none to-night!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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