achillean
/əˈkɪliən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
adj
Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
adj
Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
adj
Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
adj
Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.
noun
A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean.
Example Sentences
- "Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake."
- "Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has offered salutary warnings against seeing in male homosexuality a simple "epitome, ... The two genres of homosocial behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric, Hectoresque or Achillean: the first is active, specular, militant, conservative, apparently (not really) heterosexually inflected; the other is listless, covert, pacifistic, and passively subversive, clearly (not entirely) homosexually inclined."
- "There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia."
- "We are once again reaching a period in our collective cultural history when we may resume the post-Platonic, Achillean conversation."
- "Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered."
- "The Achillean reflex is the contraction obtained in the gastrocnemii and solei by the percussion of the tendo Achillis."