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Multi-headed dog that guards Hades, in Greek myth
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cerberus
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Greek mythology , Cerberus (; Kerberos ), often called the "hound of Hades ", is a monstrous multi-headed dog, who guards the gates of the underworld , preventing the dead from leaving. He was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon , and is ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cerberus \Cer"be*rus\, n. [L. Cerberus (in sense 1), gr. ?.] (Class. Myth.) A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of East ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"watch-dog guardian of Hades," late 14c., Latinized form of Greek Kerberos , which is of unknown origin, according to Klein perhaps cognate with Sanskrit karbarah , sabalah "spotted, speckled;" Sabalah was the name of one of the two dogs of Yama.
Usage examples of cerberus.
Cerberus Systems were gathered on Alegria IV, all but one of them present in person.
Lord Beelzebub, the Lord Lucifer, the Lord Legion, the Lord Apollyon, the Lord Python, the Lord Cerberus, and the Lord Belial.
The bioengineering tour de force that had created Cerberi had also screwed up their hereditary instincts.
A well-built stranger wearing the white bodysuit of Cerberus duty personnel followed them.
It was quite necessary that the man should be hale and hearty, for it was his business to grapple with the Fijian Cerberus in the other world, while his majesty slipped past into the abode of bliss.
Their first line of attack was the sophisticated communications technology that allowed them to listen verbatim to the interbank conversations carried on between Cerberus and its computer brethren around the world.
Cerberus found it for him easily enough, but it was a steep sidehill lie in the tall heather.
Comsat kept track of Cerberus personnel when they were away from the redoubt through telemetric signals relayed by subcutaneous transponders.
Southerly, near a broad shallow river, was allied to us by force the country of Tolteca, which I knew would march anywhere at my will, were I to point into the grinning mouths of Cerberus.
Shouts of laughter rent the air, which had such an intimidating effect on Eazas and Cerberus that not all the adjurations of the exorcists could extract the slightest response.
Thus when I was pleasantly mocked and taunted by Fotis, I sayd unto her, verily now may I for this atcheived enterprise be numbered as Hercules, who by his valiant prowesse performed the twelve notable Labors, as Gerion with three bodies, and as Cerberus with three heads, for I have slaine three blown goat skinnes.
The executive tended to make a painful example of those accused of offenses against the thronelike feeding the miscreant piecemeal to a Cerberus, or simmering him slowly in cooking oil, with full medical support to keep him alive and conscious until the last possible moment.
Before the white-coated, faceless men and women of Project Cerberus had trawled him into the future.
Brigid had been very surprised to learn that Cerberus was uplinked with a Vela-class reconnaissance satellite, as well as with Comsat communications.
He did not see the Thalassa launch that pulled away from the island, pitching and yawing, the outboard cavitating with each plunge as it struggled toward the boarding hatch on the far side of the Cerberus.