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say it: seth
seth is a noun meaning "(Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel". It is pronounced /ˈsɛθ/ — seth. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel
Old Testament
evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
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 seth 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.