Definitions for Prometheus

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Prometheus Pro·me·the·us

Spelling: [pruh-mee-thee-uh s, -thyoos]

IPA: /prəˈmi θi əs, -θyus/

Prometheus is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 845 anagrams from letters in Prometheus (eehmoprstu).

Definitions for Prometheus

noun

1. a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.

Examples for Prometheus

In March, the Post reported that investors in Prometheus wanted out.

Epimetheus said to Prometheus: 'Let me distribute, and do you inspect.'

What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus!

Epimetheus signifies after-thought, Prometheus fore-thought.

I will be one of the Sons of Prometheus, that head the revolt against the tyranny of Heaven.

To Epimethus this seemed an impossibility, but to Prometheus nothing was impossible.

On arriving at his destination Heracles followed the advice of Prometheus.

Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva, another.

Has suffering already begun to make him, like Prometheus, wise?

Even with the gifts of Prometheus, men could not rest content.