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say it: KAD-muhs
cadmus is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia". It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia
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 cadmus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.