Bucephalus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bucephalus
C17: from Latin, from Greek Boukephalos , from bous ox + kephalē head
Example Sentences
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Colin Firth plays Sir Bucephalus Hodge, a bigwig whose exact credentials escape me, but who’s giving the university a new science building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
Not written poetry, or doggerel comparing every allowance-race winner to Shadowfax or Bucephalus, but the aesthetic intensity one experiences in the presence of the inexplicable.
From Time ● May 3, 2013
Alexander calmed the horse, whose name was Bucephalus, by speaking gently.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Read any history of Alexander and Bucephalus, his horse and constant companion, looms large.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2010
In another moment he was astride of Bucephalus and off after the army.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller
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