phaethon

phaethon is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 16 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
2. noun. A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.
3. noun. type genus of the Phaethontidae
4. noun. (Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth

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