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ajax
/ˈeɪˌdʒæks/
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What does ajax mean?
preposition
- Nearby, over there
noun
- (slang) An ace and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
proper noun
- Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.
More meanings (11)
proper noun
- A town in Ontario, Canada.
- A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
- A ghost town in Utah.
- An unincorporated community in South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax
- Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.
- Alternative form of Ajax.
- (rare) A male given name.
noun
- (archaic, historical) A toilet.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈeɪˌdʒæks/
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What matters it that Achilles has a strength of four, while that of Ajax is only two?
This lord, Achilles—Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and his guts in his head—I’ll tell you what I say of him.
More book examples (3)
With expert help in the difficulties of staging and rehearsing a classic play, they reproduced the Ajax of Sophocles upon the Hull-House stage.
The next was Agamemnon, who took the life of an eagle, because, like Ajax, he hated human nature by reason of his sufferings.
Alcibiades, as it is supposed, was anciently descended from Eurysaces, the son of Ajax, by his father's side; and by his mother's side from Alcmaeon.