Definitions for Hesperides

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Hesperides Hes·per·i·des

Spelling: [he-sper-i-deez]

IPA: /hɛˈspɛr ɪˌdiz/

Hesperides is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 365 anagrams from letters in Hesperides (deeehiprss).

Definitions for Hesperides

noun

1. Classical Mythology. (used with a plural verb) nymphs, variously given as three to seven in number, who guarded with the dragon Ladon the golden apples that were the wedding gift of Gaea to Hera. (used with a singular verb) the garden where the golden apples were grown. (used with a plural verb) Islands of the Blessed.
2. (italics) (used with a plural verb) a collection of poems (1648) by Robert Herrick.

Origin of Hesperides

See origin at Hesperus, -ides

Examples for Hesperides

But, can you show me the way to the garden of the Hesperides?

The ancients believed in a golden age, in the garden of the Hesperides!

Did you ever hear of the golden apples, that grew in the garden of the Hesperides?

These golden apples, then, came to be known as the apples of Hesperides.

The peaches of immortality suggest the apples of the Hesperides.

Near him grew the tree which bore the golden apples of the Hesperides.

In Greek legend apples are stolen from the garden of Hesperides.

The ancients, in their ignorance, placed the garden of the Hesperides there.

Who sees the shame of taking an apple from a garden of the Hesperides?

There is a dreamy summer about them which make them enticing as the Hesperides of the ancients.