Sphinx

Meaning of Sphinx

noun
  1. a winged monster having a woman's head and a lion's body. It propounded a riddle about the three ages of man, killing those who failed to solve it, until Oedipus was successful, whereupon the Sphinx committed suicide.
  2. another term for hawkmoth.

late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Sphinx, apparently from sphingein ‘draw tight’.

Information about Sphinx

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of Sphinx is: Sphinxes.
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Hyphenation of Sphinx

Sphinx

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • Sphinx is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with Sphinx

androsphinx, criosphinx, hieracosphinx, sphinx

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