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Achillean.

Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.

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Meaning & usage

adj/əˈkɪliən//ˌækɪˈliːən/
  1. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.

  2. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad. Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.

  3. Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad. Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.

  4. Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.

  5. Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.

  6. Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.

Where this word comes from

From Latin Achillēus + -an. By surface analysis, Achilles + -ean.

noun/əˈkɪliən//ˌækɪˈliːən/
  1. A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean.

Where this word comes from

From Latin Achillēus + -an. By surface analysis, Achilles + -ean.

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