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say it: CHAHY-ruhn
chiron is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) the learned centaur who tutored Achilles, Asclepius, Hercules, Jason, and other heroes". It is pronounced /ˈtʃaɪɹən/ — CHAHY-ruhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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 chiron 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.