Bucephalus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bucephalus
C17: from Latin, from Greek Boukephalos , from bous ox + kephalē head
Example Sentences
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Starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the famous detective during his younger years, Mamma Mia actor Firth plays Sir Bucephalus Hodge, the dean of Oxford University, where Holmes is a porter.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
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
He urged Bucephalus forward to meet the skirmishers, who halted to await his arrival.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
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