eidolon
Example Sentences
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Helen doesn’t ask anyone at Prime Space to explain her mission’s name, Eidolon, but if she’d checked Wikipedia, she would have learned that an eidolon is a phantom in human form.
From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2017
The most famous eidolon appeared in Greek literature as the likeness of another Helen - Helen of Troy.
From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2017
Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect but big enough for the greatest love.
From Time Magazine Archive
This eidolon in the wolf helmet had shamed him, controlled him, and made him attack New Rome.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
He had figured eidolon number three was hiding inside that thing.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
