xerxes the great

1. 1.

   king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)

   SynonymsXerxes I

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Questions about xerxes the great

What does xerxes the great mean?

xerxes the great means "king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC)".

What is another word for xerxes the great?

Close synonyms include Xerxes I. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is xerxes the great a common word?

xerxes the great is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.