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jason
/ˈdʒeɪsən/
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What does jason mean?
proper noun
- The leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- Synonym of Jason Voorhees (“A male murderer, associated with a hockey mask (Jason mask), and especially one who keeps returning even after he is thought to be vanquished.”)
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proper noun
- An English surname originating as a patronymic.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdʒeɪsən/
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About fifty years later active volcanoes were actually discovered by the Norwegian, Captain C. A. Larsen, in the Jason.
The king was greatly pleased, and gave presents, according to the custom of the Parthians, to them, and to Jason, the actor, a talent.
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I will leave a letter for the May mail, unless I sail within a week of to-morrow, or go by the Jason, which would be home far sooner than the mail.
Nimrod, Theseus, Jason and his Argonauts; Jephthah, David, Cacus, Romulus, Clovis and all his Merovingian descendants; Robert Guiscard, Tancred de Hauteville, Bohemond, and most of the Norman heroes,--were brigands and robbers.
I have sometimes half suspected that here the winged ram Chrysomallus left that Fleece after which Jason and his Argonauts went vaguely wandering into the shadowy East three thousand years ago; and certainly one might frame a pretty and not far-fetched analogy of witchery and dragons’ teeth, and blood and armed men, between the ancient and the modern quest of the Golden Fleece in the Black Sea.