erinyes

Questions about erinyes

What does erinyes mean?

erinyes means "(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals".

How many syllables are in erinyes?

erinyes has 3 syllables and divides as e-ri-nyes under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for erinyes?

Close synonyms include Fury, Eumenides. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is erinyes a common word?

erinyes 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.