Definitions for Ajax

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Ajax A·jax

Spelling: [ey-jaks]

IPA: /ˈeɪ dʒæks/

Ajax is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in Ajax (aajx).

Definitions for Ajax

noun

1. Also called Great Ajax, Telamonian Ajax. Classical Mythology. a Greek hero in the Trojan War who rescued the body of Achilles and killed himself out of jealousy when Odysseus was awarded the armor of Achilles.
2. Also called Ajax the Lesser. Classical Mythology. a Locrian king, noted for his fighting during the Trojan War, who was said to have been killed in a shipwreck as punishment for violating a shrine of Athena.
3. (italics) a tragedy (c440 b.c.) by Sophocles.
4. a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.

Examples for Ajax

So did the high-born Ajax spoil Simosius, the descendant of Anthemion.

On the other side the Achaeans brought Ajax elated with victory to Agamemnon.

Hector made straight for Ajax, and the two fought fiercely about the same ship.

In 1792, they appointed him a general under Dumouriez, who baptized him his Ajax.

As early as the 1960s, clubs like Ajax Amsterdam began developing new approaches to the game.

Thus they spake, and Ajax was arming himself in splendid brass.

But now that Ajax is gone, there don't seem to be no sense to the name.

And he shook his puny fist at the blue vault of heaven—Ajax defying Jupiter.

It falls to the lot of Hector, but he retires on the approach of Ajax.

He was not so great, nor nearly so great, as Ajax the son of Telamon.