Definitions for gorgons

gorgons Gor·gon

Spelling: [gawr-guh n]
IPA: /ˈgɔr gən/

Gorgons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in gorgons (ggnoors).

Definitions for gorgons

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. any of three sister monsters commonly represented as having snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone looking into them to stone. Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, was beheaded by Perseus.
  2. (lowercase) a mean, ugly, or repulsive woman.

Origin of gorgons

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Gorgōn Greek Gorgṓ, derivative of gorgós dreadful

Examples for gorgons

Unfortunately the journal says very little of the Gorgon's voyage home.

Hence the Gorgon, one of her consorts, was ordered to go ahead and lead the way.

In its surface he could safely look at the reflection of the Gorgon's face.

The Gorgon stares you out of countenance, and that suffices.

"Surely the Gorgon was a kind of prehistoric suffragette," objected Dick.

In Greek mythology, the Gorgon Medusa had the face of a woman and poisonous snakes for hair; her glance could turn men to stone.

Myrtle fossilized them as suddenly as if she had been a Gorgon instead of a beauty.

Military drones, with ominous code names like Gorgon Stare and Constant Hawk, can monitor movement across an entire urban area.

Nor must we forget that he has run upon a limitation, that Gorgon from whom he fled.

The Gorgon cannot have looked more coldly wicked than her ladyship just then.

Word Value for gorgons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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