Definitions for osirisoʊˈsaɪ rɪs

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

O•si•risoʊˈsaɪ rɪs(n.)

  1. the Egyptian god and judge of the dead, husband and brother of Isis.

    Category: Eastern Religions

O•si′ri•an-ri ən(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Osiris(noun)

    Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus

Wiktionary

  1. Osiris(ProperNoun)

    The Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld.

  2. Origin: From Ὄσιρις.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Osiris

    one of the principal gods of Egypt, the husband of Isis, who was his sister and the father of Horus, who avenged the wrongs he suffered at the hands of the Earth, his mother, in whose womb he was born and in whose womb he was buried; he was the god of all the earth-born, and subject to the like fate.


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