Harpy

Meaning of Harpy

noun
  1. a rapacious monster described as having a woman's head and body and a bird's wings and claws or depicted as a bird of prey with a woman's face.
  2. a grasping, unpleasant woman.
    clearly, he had us down as a couple of gold-digging harpies

late Middle English: from Latin harpyia, from Greek harpuiai ‘snatchers’.

Information about Harpy

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of Harpy is: Harpies.
  • Languages ​​in which Harpy is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of Harpy

Harpy

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • Harpy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Harpy synonyms

Meaning vixen:

vixen, hellcat

Words that rhyme with Harpy

allocarpy, angiocarpy, apocarpy, geocarpy, parthenocarpy, polycarpy, syncarpy, harpy, sharpy

Are you looking more rhymes for Harpy? Try our rhymes search engine.