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Definition of prometheus - 3 dictionary results

Pro⋅me⋅the⋅us

  [pruh-mee-thee-uhs, -thyoos]
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–noun Classical Mythology.
a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
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Pro·me·the·us   (prə-mē'thē-əs, -thyōōs')   
n.  

  1. Greek Mythology A Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to humankind, for which Zeus chained him to a rock and sent an eagle to eat his liver, which grew back daily.

  2. A satellite of Saturn.


[Latin Promētheus, from Greek.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Computing Dictionary

Prometheus language
A programmaing language geared for logic, mathematics, AI, and string, list and database processing. Prometheus runs on a variety of platforms from Macintosh to MS-DOS
(http://aard.tracor.com/Jason/Prometheus/).
(1996-03-04)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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