Definitions for Cyclops

Cyclops Cy·clops

Spelling: [sahy-klops]
IPA: /ˈsaɪ klɒps/

Cyclops is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in Cyclops (cclopsy).

Definitions for Cyclops

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. a member of a family of giants having a single round eye in the middle of the forehead.
  2. (lowercase) a freshwater copepod of the genus Cyclops, having a median eye in the front of the head.
  3. (Cyclops) 382?–301 b.c, Macedonian general under Alexander the Great.

Origin of Cyclops

Greek Kýklōps, literally, round-eye, equivalent to kýkl(os) a circle, round + ṓps eye

Examples for Cyclops

The evolution of this new order from the savage Cyclops is hinted in the poem.

Pol y phe' mus, or Polyphemos or Cyclops—the son of Poseidon.

In the episode, “The Cyber House Rules,” Leela dates her childhood crush—now a rich surgeon—and tries to change her Cyclops look.

We thrust the burning stick into the Cyclops' eye and put it out.

At dawn the Cyclops woke, and his awakening was like a thunderstorm.

He cannot forget the Cyclops, the men of violence who once did his people wrong.

I never associate Vulcan and his Cyclops with the idea of a forge.

It is sufficient that the ambiguity was such as to deceive the friends of the Cyclops.

The Cyclops tasted the wine and laughed with delight so that the cave shook.

Polyphemus is a Cyclops but he has characteristics of his own.

Word Value for Cyclops
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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