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cyrus the elder

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Cy⋅rus

[sahy-ruhs]
–noun
1. (“the Elder” or “the Great”) c600–529 b.c., king of Persia 558?–529: founder of the Persian empire.
2. (“the Younger”) 424?–401 b.c., Persian prince and satrap: leader of the armed conspiracy against his brother King Artaxerxes II.
3. a male given name: from an Old Persian word meaning “throne.”
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Cyrus 
L., from Gk. Kyros, from O.Pers. Kurush, a name of unknown etymology. In Heb., Koresh, and in that form taken c.1990 by Wayne Howell of Texas, U.S., when he became head of the Branch Davidian cult there.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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