In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.
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Zeus
//zjuːs//
Synonyms for "zeus" (77 found)
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67 translations across 56 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Ζεύς name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Arabic
2 entries- زَفْس name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- زْيُوس name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Armenian
2 entries- Զեւս name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- Զևս name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Bactrian
1 entries- Ζαοου name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Bulgarian
1 entries- Зевс name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Catalan
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏑᏍ name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 宙斯 name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲍⲉⲩⲥ name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Czech
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Danish
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Dutch
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Esperanto
1 entries- Zeŭso name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Extremaduran
1 entries- Zeu name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Finnish
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
French
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Galician
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Georgian
1 entries- ზევსი name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
German
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Greek
3 entries- Δάν name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- Δίας name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- Ζευς name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Gujarati
2 entries- ઝિયૂસ name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- ઝૂસ name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Hebrew
1 entries- זֶאוּס name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Hindi
1 entries- ज़्यूस name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Hungarian
1 entries- Zeusz name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Icelandic
1 entries- Seifur name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Irish
1 entries- Séas name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Italian
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Japanese
1 entries- ゼウス name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Korean
1 entries- 제우스 name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Latin
2 entries- Iuppiter name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Latvian
1 entries- Zevs name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Dzeusas name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Lombard
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Macedonian
1 entries- Зевс name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Marathi
3 entries- झुस name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- झेअस name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- झेउस name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Mycenaean Greek
1 entries- 𐀇𐀸 name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Zevs name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- Zevs name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Occitan
1 entries- Zèus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- Ꙁеѵсъ name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Persian
1 entries- زئوس name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Polish
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Portuguese
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Russian
1 entries- Зевс name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- Zevs name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- Зевс name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
- Зеус name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Slovene
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Spanish
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Swahili
1 entries- Zeu name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Swedish
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Tumbuka
1 entries- Zeusi name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Turkish
1 entries- Zeus name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Зевс name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Dớt name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Wolof
1 entries- Sës name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Yiddish
1 entries- זעוס name (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Socrates was accused of atheism because he did not believe in Zeus.
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I've never met anyone who is agnostic about the existence of Zeus.
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Io was one of the lovers of Zeus and was transformed into a cow by him.
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