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TIRESIAS

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Overview

TIRESIAS (noun)
  The noun TIRESIAS has 1 sense:

1. (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his motherplay

  Familiarity information: TIRESIAS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


TIRESIAS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)


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