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 Definitions of tiresias  [ɪˈri si əs]  

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Definition of 'tiresias' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Tiresias
(in Greek myth) a blind prophet of Thebes.


Definition of 'tiresias' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Tiresias
(Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother


Definitions of 'tiresias' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  tiresias
in the Greek mythology a soothsayer, who had been struck blind either by Athena or Hera, but on whom in compensation Zeus had conferred the gift of prophecy, and length of days beyond the ordinary term of existence.



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