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sphinx
sphinx is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 19 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 18 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
- 2noun
On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
- 3noun
Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
- 4noun
Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
- 5noun
The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).
- 6noun
one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
- 7noun
(Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon
- 8noun
an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
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