[uh-kil-eez] 
| the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow. |
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n, uh-kil-ee-] , adjective | A·chil·les (ə-kĭl'ēz) n. Greek Mythology The hero of Homer's Iliad, the son of Peleus and Thetis and slayer of Hector. |