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say it: HEE-see-uhd
hesiod is a noun meaning "Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)". It is pronounced /ˈhisiəd/ — HEE-see-uhd. It carries one recorded sense.
Greek poet whose existing works describe rural life and the genealogies of the gods and the beginning of the world (eighth century BC)
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 hesiod 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.