EUMENIDES

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• EUMENIDES (noun)
  The noun EUMENIDES has 1 sense:

1. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

  Familiarity information: EUMENIDES used as a noun is very rare.

• EUMENIDES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Erinyes; Eumenides; Fury

Instance hypernyms:

mythical creature; mythical monster (a monster renowned in folklore and myth)

Domain category:

classical mythology (the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Eumenides"):

Alecto; Megaera; Tisiphone (one of the three Furies)