Cyclops is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CYCLOPS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a genus of freshwater copepods
• a one-eyed monster
• a member of a race of savage one-eyed giants. In the Odyssey, Odysseus escaped death by blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus.
• a minute predatory freshwater crustacean which has a cylindrical body with a single central eye.
• type of copepod characterized by having one eye
• One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
• A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
• A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
• (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
• minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a minute one-eyed crustacean

Words related to CYCLOPS

cyclopes17 cyclopian18 cyclopic19 cyclops16

How to use CYCLOPS in a sentence

• Old Cyclops must be throwing his mind back a hundred years or so.
• I shall be glad to see this Cyclops, who is blackening all the valley.
• There was not an island without its particular god, without its monster and cyclops, or its magician contriving artifices.
• The Discourse upon the Cyclops, by John Bourrya, esq.
• With toil and sweat, With hardening cold, and forming heat, The Cyclops did their strokes repeat, Before the impenetrable shield was wrought.
• Apollo, being condemned by Jupiter to serve a mortal for twelve months for slaying a Cyclops, entered the service of Admetus.
• The Cyclops were giants with only one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead.
• At a sign from Camusot the prisoner was stripped of everything but his trousers, even of his shirt, and the spectators might admire the hairy torso of a Cyclops.
• In Greek mythology, the Cyclops were a race of giants.
• Enraged at the death of his son, Apollo threatened to destroy the Cyclops, the giant workmen of Vulcan, who had forged the terrible thunderbolt.
• At Aci Castello they were pointed out the seven Isles of the Cyclops, which the blind Polyphemus once hurled after the crafty Ulysses.
• And truly he saw it to his cost! It was evening when the Cyclops came home, a mighty giant, twenty feet in height, or more.
• Then Ulysses divided among his company all the sheep which they had taken from the Cyclops.
• Never in our lives did we see a creature so frightful as this Cyclops was.
• On the floor of the cave there was a great beam of olive wood which the Cyclops had cut to make a club when the wood should be seasoned.
• Then I and my companions laid hold on the great stake and, dashing at the Cyclops, thrust it into his eye.
• Then I thought that the curse of the Cyclops was vain and could bring no harm to us.
• The interior of the mount discovered Vulcan and his Cyclops.
• The labours of the Cyclops produced numberless very happy combinations of artificial fires.
• The Cyclops are described in Grecian mythology as giants having only one eye, which was circular, and placed in the middle of the forehead.
• If they succeed, ours is only the boon of the Cyclops to Ulysses, of being the last devoured.
• When Linnaeus got to Upsala he found a letter from Doctor Cyclops, written in wrath, requesting him never again to show his face in Lund.
• Vulcan the blacksmith, who was the master of the Cyclops, and forged iron in Mount AEtna, was a character familiar to the Greeks, and Romans.
• His servants are called Cyclops, because they have but one eye.
• Nothing can be more horrid, than the cruel process of the Cyclops, as it is represented by Homer.
• But there was a time, when some of her temples were as much dreaded, as those of Scylla, and the Cyclops.
• Here live and labor Briareus and Cyclops of modern mythology.
• Cripps in the brig Cyclops, bound from Port Jackson to Bengal, in 1812.
• This is the Cyclops wall surrounding the hill on which the temples stand.
• When we once get the way of it, hand over hip, we laugh at Vulcan and all his Cyclops.
• Having once adopted the Cyclops, he never left him.
• From the way in which this Cyclops, for he had but one eye, placed himself in position, it was evident that this was the last round, for no one doubted his defeat.
• Virgil dwells particularly on the formation of the thunder which he describes unfinished under the hammers of the Cyclops.

Similar words containing CYCLOP without suffix s

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