Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hundred-handed

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.24 in modern English

Syllables: hun-dred-hand-ed
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.

adj

Alternative form of Hundred-handed.

adj

Having 100 hands.

adj

Alternative form of Hundred-handed.

Example Sentences

"Uranos imprisoned the Titans in the earth, and threw the Cyclops and Hundred-handed Giants into Tartarus, but was at length overthrown and disabled by his son Cronos the Titan, who thereupon released his brother Titans and established the second dynasty of gods called the Cronids."
"You guys go free the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handed ones," said Zeus."
"Of course, it's impossible to follow up on every single big of misbehaviour and less-than-perfect conduct that you will come – you're not some hundred-handed Eastern deity – but you must be seen to be doing what you can."
"In Classical legend Cottys was the hundred-handed brother of the hundred-handed monsters Briareus and Gyes, allies of the God Zeus in his war against the Titans on the borders of Thrace and Thessaly."

Inflected Forms

Hundredhanded (alternative)

Questions

What does hundred-handed mean?: Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.

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