cadmus
IPA: kˈædmʌs
Root Word: Cadmus
noun
- (Greek mythology) A Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor of Tyre. Was sent by his royal parents to seek and return his sister Europa after being abducted from Phoenicia by Zeus. Credited with founding Greek city of Thebes and inventing Greek alphabet.
- An unincorporated community in Linn County, Kansas, United States.
- A surname.
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Examples of "cadmus" in Sentences
- Cannon made Cadmus more open to the public.
- This occurs most notably just south of Cadmus.
- Cadmus and his wife Harmonia are turned into snakes.
- Agave and Cadmus mourn and are comforted by Dionysus.
- The five survivors joined with Cadmus to found the city of Thebes.
- Cadmus was best known as a traveller and vector of culture and ideas.
- Polydorus was the only son of Cadmus and Harmonia and king of Thebes.
- He is the result of the brief time Cadmus attempted to clone Superman.
- The allegory referred to the Greek myth of Cadmus and the dragon's teeth.
- Cadmus then ruled over the Illyrians and he had another son, named Illyrius.