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Definition: Erebus

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the underworld; son of Chaos; brother of Nox; father of Aether and Day.[Wordnet]
2. A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades.[Websters]
3. The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus.[Websters].

Sources: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Erebus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

Etymology:Erebus \Er"e*bus\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek]. (references)

Specialty Definition: Erebus

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] In mythology, darkness; hence, the region of the dead; a deep and gloomy place; hell.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Geography Erebus is geographically located in New Zealand. Its features include a peak (a pointed elevation atop a mountain, ridge, or other hypsographic feature). Its geographic coordinates are 44.7 degrees South latitude and 168.183333 degrees East longitude. (references)
Wiktionary 1: [Proper noun] (Greek mythology) The personification of darkness and shadow. (references)
  2: [Proper noun] A volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus. (references)

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Common Expressions: Erebus

Expressions Definition
Erebus (crater) Erebus Crater is a crater on Mars that is currently being visited by the Opportunity rover on the way to the much larger Victoria Crater. It is named after the polar exploration vessel HMS Erebus. (references)
Erebus class monitor The Erebus class of monitors of the Royal Navy consisted of two ships: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. (references)
HMS Erebus Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Erebus after Erebus, the dark region of Hades in Greek Mythology. (references)
HMS Erebus (1807) HMS Erebus was a Royal Navy rocket vessel built in 1807, converted to an 18-gun sloop in 1808, to a fire ship in 1809, and to a 24-gun sixth-rate in 1810. She was sold in 1819. (references)
HMS Erebus (1826) HMS Erebus was a Hecla class bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke Dockyard, Wales in 1826. The vessel was named after the dark region in Hades of Greek Mythology called Erebus. (references)
HMS Erebus (I02) HMS Erebus (I02) was a World War I monitor launched on 1916-06-19. She and her sister Terror are known as the Erebus class. They took their names from ships sent in exploration of the Northwest passage. (references)

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Extended Definition: Erebus

Erebus

Erebus may refer to the following:

  • Erebus, the Greek god of darkness
  • HMS Erebus, part of the expedition that carried Sir John Franklin's failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage
  • "The Erebus and the Terror", New Age instrumental from the 1989 album Something of Time by Nightnoise
    • Mount Erebus is an Antarctic volcano named after the ship.
      • The Mount Erebus disaster, an aircraft accident that occurred on the volcano in 1979
      • Erebus: The Aftermath, a New Zealand television miniseries about the investigation into the accident
    • Erebus (crater), a crater on Mars named after the ship
  • Erebus (moth), a genus of noctuid moths.
  • House of Erebus, a vampire house in the 1998 film Blade
  • Erebus, name of the boat in the film Apocalypse Now


Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Erebus (disambiguation)". Image Credit.
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Extended Definition: Erebus

Erebus

Greek deities
series
Titans and Olympians
Aquatic deities
Chthonic deities
Personified concepts
Other deities
Primordial deities
  • Chaos
  • Aether
  • Gaia
  • Uranus
  • Hemera
  • Chronos
  • Eros
  • Erebus
  • Nyx
  • Ophion
  • Tartarus

In Greek mythology, Erebus or Erebos (Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, English translation: "deep blackness/darkness or shadow") was the son of a primordial god Chaos and represented the personification of darkness and shadow, which filled in all the corners and crannies of the world. He was the offspring of Chaos alone. He was brother of Nyx and father with her of Aether and Hemera, according to Hesiod (c. 700 BC). According to Hyginus (c. AD 1), he was the father of Geras.

According to some later legends, Erebus was part of Hades, the underworld. It was where the dead had to pass immediately after dying. After Charon ferried them across the river Acheron, they entered Tartarus, the underworld proper. Erebus was often used as a synonym for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.

The word is probably from Proto-Indo-European language, *h1regwos, cognate to Old Norse røkkr, Gothic riqis "darkness", Sanskrit rajani "night", Tamil Eravu "night", Tocharian orkäm "darkness". Another suggestion is a loan from Semitic, c.f. Hebrew erebh and Akkadian erebu "sunset, evening" (hence, "darkness"). The same etymology of "sunset" has been suggested for Europe.

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Topics by Level of Interest: Erebus

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Erebus 66     Erebus 66
HMS Erebus 26     Erebus (album) 4
Erebus Ice Tongue 23     Erebus (alternative meanings) 3
Mount Erebus 17     Erebus (crater) 8
Erebus class monitor 14     Erebus and Terror Gulf 4
HMS Erebus (I02) 11     Erebus class monitor 14
Erebus (crater) 8     Erebus Crystal 6
HMS Erebus (1826) 8     Erebus Ice Tongue 23
Erebus Crystal 6     HMS Erebus 26
Lower Erebus Hut 6     HMS Erebus (1807) 3
Erebus (album) 4     HMS Erebus (1826) 8
Erebus and Terror Gulf 4     HMS Erebus (I02) 11
HMS Erebus (1807) 3     Lower Erebus Hut 6
Erebus (alternative meanings) 3     Mount Erebus 17

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Synonyms: Erebus
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 Pluto, Rhadamanthus.
Consider also: aides, hell, netherworld, underworld.
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Computed Synonyms: Erebus

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   2.2092   Erebus     previous to     before, prior to, in front of, till, to   
 2   2.1093   Erebus     prioress     abbess, mother superior, previous to, prior to, priority   
 3   2.0396   Erebus     ere     before, afore, prior to, previous to, ago   
 4   2.0094   Erebus     by     at, on, to, with, in   
 5   2.0093   Erebus     before     in front of, ahead, to, previously, above   
 6   2.0089   Erebus     in front of     before, ahead of, ahead, in front, prior to   
 7   2.0088   Erebus     no later than     before then, prior to, previous to, in front of, ere   
 8   1.0091   Erebus     necromancy     sorcery, witchcraft, magic, wizardry, witchery   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Synonyms within Context: Erebus

Context Synonyms within Context

Hell

Erebus, Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Tophet.

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Translations: Erebus

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Balgarski Ереб (Erebus). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) ereb (Erebus). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian Erebos (Erebus), Ereb (Erebus). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese Antes De (before, previous to, before that, in front of, before then). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian Ереб (Erebus). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) ereb (Erebus). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina Erebos (Erebus), Ereb (Erebus). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 阳间与阴间当中的黑暗界 (Erebus), 阳间与阴间带中的黑暗界 (Erebus). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 陽間與陰間當中的黑暗界 (Erebus). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech Erebos (Erebus), Ereb (Erebus). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Daco-Rumanian Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Dari در افسانه يونانی برزخ يا عالم ظلمات (Erebus). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Erebus (erebus), Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch Erebus (Erebus). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
German Erebus (erebus), Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek έρεβοσ (Erebus). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) erevos (Erebus). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 에레보스 (Erebus), 〈그리스 신화〉 에러버스 (erebus). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 에레보스 (Erebus), 〈그리스 신화〉 에러버스 (erebus). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Erebus (erebus), Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Erebus (erebus), Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian Erebo (Erebus), Erebus (Mount Erebus). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese エレボス (Erebus), エレバス山 (Erebus), 暗黒界 (Erebus). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 에레보스 (Erebus), 〈그리스 신화〉 에러버스 (erebus). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Lietuvi Erebas (Erebus). Additional references: Lietuvi, Lithuania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Litauische Erebas (Erebus). Additional references: Litauische, Lithuania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Litewski Erebas (Erebus). Additional references: Litewski, Lithuania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Lithuanian Erebas (Erebus). Additional references: Lithuanian, Lithuania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Litovskiy Erebas (Erebus). Additional references: Litovskiy, Lithuania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Liutuviskai Erebas (Erebus). Additional references: Liutuviskai, Lithuania, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Moldavian Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Parsi در افسانه يونانی برزخ يا عالم ظلمات (Erebus). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian در افسانه يونانی برزخ يا عالم ظلمات (Erebus). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian (Farsi) در افسانه يونانی برزخ يا عالم ظلمات (Erebus). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese Antes De (before, previous to, in front of, above, before then), Monte Erebus (Mount Erebus). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Romanian Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Rumanian Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian Эреб (Erebus), царство мертвых (Erebus, necromancy), подземный мир (Erebus). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) ereb (Erebus), tsarstvo mertvykh (Erebus, necromancy), podzemnyy mir (Erebus). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki Эреб (Erebus), царство мертвых (Erebus, necromancy), подземный мир (Erebus). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) ereb (Erebus), tsarstvo mertvykh (Erebus, necromancy), podzemnyy mir (Erebus). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Serbian (transliteration) erebus (Erebus). Additional references: Serbian (transliteration), Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish Tinieblas Eternas (Erebus). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian Вічна Пітьма (Erebus), Царство Мертвих (Erebus). Additional references: Ukrainian, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Ukrainian (transliteration) vіchna pіtʹma (Erebus), tsarstvo mertvikh (Erebus). Additional references: Ukrainian, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
Urdu نرک۔ دوزخ۔ جہنم۔ تحت الثریٰ۔ پتال (Erebus). Additional references: Urdu, Pakistan, India, Erebus. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Erebus

Language Translations for “Erebus” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag Athagerathagebathagus (Erebus). Additional references: Athag, Erebus. (volunteer)
Double Dutch Ageragebagus (Erebus). Additional references: Double Dutch, Erebus. (volunteer)
Leet £P\£|3|_|$ (Erebus). Additional references: Leet, Erebus. (volunteer)
Oppish Operopebopus (Erebus). Additional references: Oppish, Erebus. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Erebusway (Erebus). Additional references: Pig Latin, Erebus. (volunteer)
Terran B Erebos (Erebus). Additional references: Terran B, Erebus. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi Uberubebubus (Erebus). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Erebus. (volunteer)
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