Sphinxes

Meaning of Sphinxes

noun

a winged monster having a woman's head and a lion's body. It propounded a riddle about the three ages of man, killing those who failed to solve it, until Oedipus was successful, whereupon the Sphinx committed suicide.

late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Sphinx, apparently from sphingein ‘draw tight’.

Information about Sphinxes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of Sphinxes is: Sphinx.
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Hyphenation of Sphinxes

Sphinxes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • Sphinxes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with Sphinxes

phalanxes, androsphinxes, criosphinxes, hieracosphinxes, jinxes, minxes, outjinxes, salpinxes, sphinxes, spninxes, syrinxes, quincunxes, yunxes, cytopharynxes, hypopharynxes, jynxes, laryngopharynxes, larynxes, lynxes, nasopharynxes, oropharynxes, pharynxes

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