Hermes
/ˈhɝmiːz/ name, noun
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A head or bust on a square base, often double-faced.
Proper Noun
- 1 The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft. Greek
- 2 The Egyptian Thoth, identified with the Greek Hermes.
- 3 The planet Mercury when observed as an evening star.
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"I've never given anyone a Hermes scarf."
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of disputed meaning and origin, possibly of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”).