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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
atreus is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus". It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus
Greek mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for atreus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.