This week’s theme
Eponyms

This week’s words
Orphean
Proteus
eolian
panderer
chimeric

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ee-O-lee-uhn)

MEANING:

adjective: Relating to or caused by the wind.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Aeolus, god of the winds in Greek mythology. As keeper of the winds, he gave a bag containing winds to help with Odysseus’s sailing. Earliest documented use: 1546.

USAGE:

“‘If an extremely tenuous atmosphere like that of Pluto can support the generation of bedforms from wind-driven sediment, what kind of eolian activity might we see on places like Io (a moon of Jupiter) or Triton?’ [Matt Telfer] wrote.”
Amina Khan; Tiny Pluto Reveals Big Surprises; Los Angeles Times; Jun 4, 2018.

See more usage examples of eolian in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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