Definitions for Achilles

Achilles A·chil·les

Spelling: [uh-kil-eez]
IPA: /əˈkɪl iz/

Achilles is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 287 anagrams from letters in Achilles (acehills).

Definitions for Achilles

noun

  1. the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow.

Examples for Achilles

Another of her sons was Memnon, King of Æthiopia, who was slain by Achilles.

Even Hector cut his stick (with Achilles after him) at the siege of Troy.

Obama, extremely/quite confident: 32 percent Romney, extremely/quite confident: 19 percent That's the Achilles Heel, gang.

A second doctor suggested it might be possible to extend his Achilles tendon.

But Achilles was amazed at the sight of Priam, and amazed were the rest, and they looked at each other.

Our visionary scientists have found the Achilles heel of yet another enemy of the State—the Superbug!

Nolens Volens tries it by a process like "Achilles and the Tortoise."

This is, or soon will be, the Achilles, iron armour-plated ship.

Alexander the Great fashioned himself after Achilles and very much identified with him.

We tried to stay with a very strict core, which is Achilles and Hector.

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