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pegasus
/ˈpɛɡəsəs/
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What does pegasus mean?
noun
- Alternative form of Pegasus.
- Any winged horse; a pterippus.
proper noun
- A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.
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proper noun
- A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
noun
- (historical) A coin of ancient Corinth with a winged horse depicted on the obverse.
- (archaic) Poetic inspiration; muse.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɛɡəsəs/
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Then winged Pegasus is shut up in the stall of Corydon, and eloquent Mercury is strangled.
"Unless he was a second Pegasus, and could soar above the Formosan roads," added Dr. Dickson.
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Liris and Pegasus at once she slew: The former, as the slacken’d reins he drew Of his faint steed; the latter, as he stretch’d His arm to prop his friend, the jav’lin reach’d.
The oration upon Bellerophon and his successful fight with the Chimera contended that social evils could only be overcome by him who soared above them into idealism, as Bellerophon mounted upon the winged horse Pegasus, had slain the earthy dragon.
The daughter of PALAI (the constellation Pegasus) fell in love with a Long Kiput youth, LAFAANG by name, and invited him to ascend to the heavens, warning him at the same time that the customs in her celestial home were very different from those of earth.