Achilles
noun
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.
Achillean
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a word derived from
Achilles.
Example Sentences
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Like a woman from Trianon's market, or the Achillean Alps.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Why not cast him in Achillean brass, the rival of the great hero of gunpowder and Waterloo, and make him breathe gas like the Dragon of Wantley, to illuminate the triumphal arch.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various
There is also the cardamale, and the berex, and the tolype, and the Achilleum; and perhaps that is a cake which is made of the Achillean barley.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
If he is surrounded by mountainous circumstances, an Achillean shore, whose peaks overshadow and are reflected in his bosom, they suggest a corresponding depth in him.
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A copy of Blair's speech had been shown him at the station, and I was the sole witness of his Achillean wrath.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne
