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say it: MUR-mi-din
myrmidon is a noun meaning "a follower who carries out orders without question". It is pronounced /ˈmɝmɪdɪn/ — MUR-mi-din. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a follower who carries out orders without question
(Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy
Greek mythology
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 myrmidon 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.