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say it: MAHY-duhs
midas is a noun meaning "(Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold". It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold
Greece · legend
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 midas 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.