Gorgon
gən
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| —n | |
| 1. | Greek myth any of three winged monstrous sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, who had live snakes for hair, huge teeth, and brazen claws |
| 2. | informal (often not capital) a fierce or unpleasant woman |
| [via Latin Gorgō from Greek, from gorgos terrible] | |
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Gorgon
is always a great word to know.
So is Styx. Does it mean:
| a river in the underworld, over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon, and by which the gods swore their most solemn oaths |
| islands in the ocean at the remotest western end of the world, to which the souls of heroes and worthy persons were transported after death |
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Gorgon
late 14c., any of the three hideous sisters in Gk. legend, whose look turned beholders to stone (Madusa was one of them), from Gk. Gorgo (pl. Gorgones), from gorgos "terrible." Transferred sense of "terrifyingly ugly person" is from 1520s.
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