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MORPHEUS

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Overview

MORPHEUS (noun)
  The noun MORPHEUS has 1 sense:

1. the Roman god of sleep and dreamsplay

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


English dictionary: Word details


MORPHEUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The Roman god of sleep and dreams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

deity; divinity; god; immortal (any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force)

Domain category:

Ovid; Publius Ovidius Naso (Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17))


 Context examples 


If I don't sleep at once, chloral, the modern Morpheus! I must be careful not to let it grow into a habit. No, I shall take none to-night!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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