augeas

1. 1.

   (Greek mythology) the mythical Greek king who for 30 years did not clean his stables which contained his vast herd of cattle

   Broadermythical being

   Greek mythology

Other forms of augeas

plural

augeases·

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.

Questions about augeas

What does augeas mean?

augeas means "(Greek mythology) the mythical Greek king who for 30 years did not clean his stables which contained his vast herd of cattle".

How many syllables are in augeas?

augeas has 3 syllables: a-u-geas. The stress falls on "a".

Is augeas a common word?

augeas is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.