ACHILLES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his 'Achilles' heel'

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

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