Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

Hephaestus

Syllabification: (He·phaes·tus)
Pronunciation: /hiˈfestəs/

Greek Mythology
Definition of Hephaestus
  • the god of fire and of craftsmen, son of Zeus and Hera; husband of Aphrodite. He was a divine metalworker who was lame as the result of having interfered in a quarrel between his parents. Roman equivalent Vulcan.

Hephaestus in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Hephaestus in the British & World English dictionary
  |  Cite

Word of the day

leporine

/ ˈlɛpərʌɪn /
adjective
of or resembling a hare or hares …