Alcinoüs

American  

[al-sin-oh-uhs] / ælˈsɪn oʊ əs /

noun

1. king of the Phaeacians and father of Nausicaä and Laodamas.

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Alcinoüs British  

/ ælˈsɪnəʊəs /

noun

1. (in Homer's Odyssey ) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings See also Nausicaä

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Example Sentences

Their king, Alcinoüs, was a good, sensible man who knew that his wife Acrete was a great deal wiser than he and always let her decide anything important for him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

When each had made libation, and had drunk Sufficient, then, Alcinoüs thus began.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

Unnoticed by the rest Those drops, but not by King Alcinoüs, fell   Who, seated at his side, his heavy sighs Remark’d, and the Phæacians thus bespake.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

So spake Alcinoüs, and his counsel pleased; Then, all retiring, sought repose at home.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

So he, whom hearing, the imperial might Exulted of Alcinoüs, and aloud To his oar-skill’d Phæacians thus he spake.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William