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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
lachesis is a noun meaning "the Greek goddess of fate who determines the length of the thread of life". It carries one recorded sense.
the Greek goddess of fate who determines the length of the thread of life
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 lachesis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.