Heracles

[ her-uh-kleez ]

/ ˈhɛr əˌkliz /

noun

Hercules (def. 1).

Also called Heracles Furens

[fyoor-uhns]. /ˈfyʊər əns/. (italics) a tragedy (420? b.c.) by Euripides.

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Origin of Heracles

From Greek Hēraklês, literally, “having the glory of Hera,” equivalent to Hḗra + -klēs, akin to kléos “glory, fame”; see Hera

OTHER WORDS FROM Heracles

Her·a·cle·an, adjective

Words nearby Heracles

Hepzibah, her, Hera, Heraclea, Heracleides, Heracles, Heraclid, Heraclidae, Heraclitean, Heracliteanism, Heraclitus

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Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.
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When vengeance has been taken Iris descends from heaven, sent by Hera to stain Heracles with kindred bloodshed.
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Heracles sought him in vain, and the answer of Hylas to his thrice-repeated cry was lost in the depths of the water.
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Heracles supports on his shoulders the vault of heaven, while the Titan Atlas brings him the golden apples of the Hesperides.
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Are you proceeding to set our Father Zeus on fire, or do you intend to repeat on our unwilling Heracles the rites of canonisation?
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Heracles goes to this Rough country to seek for rest; all the waves and billows of his life having—as he thinks now—gone over him.
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British Dictionary definitions for Heracles

Heracles

Herakles

/ (ˈhɛrəˌkliːz) /

noun

the usual name (in Greek) for Hercules 1

Derived forms of Heracles

Heraclean or Heraklean, adjective

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