ephebes

Meaning of ephebes

plural noun

(in ancient Greece) a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training.

late 19th centuryː via Latin from Greek ephēbos ‘adolescent boy’, from epi ‘near to’ + hēbē ‘youth, early manhood’.

Information about ephebes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of ephebes is: ephebe.
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Hyphenation of ephebes

ephebes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • ephebes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with ephebes

Debes, Hebes, Thebes, hebes, thebes, Celebes, celebes, glebes, lebes, plebes, phoebes, grebes, tsessebes

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