ephebe
Meaning of ephebe
noun
(in ancient Greece) a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training.
late 19th centuryː via Latin from Greek ephēbos ‘adolescent boy’, from epi ‘near to’ + hēbē ‘youth, early manhood’.
Information about ephebe
- It is a name.
- The plural form of ephebe is: ephebes.
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Hyphenation of ephebe
ephebe
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- ephebe is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with ephebe
Hebe, hebe, Achebe, Phebe, Thebe, thebe
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