Dictionary Entry
gorgon
gorgon is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.
- 2noun
Anything very ugly or horrid.
- 3noun
The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
- 4adjective
Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.
- 5noun
(Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone
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