GORGON Definition & Meaning

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Gorgon

[ gawr-guhn ]

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noun

Classical Mythology. any of three sister monsters commonly represented as having snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone looking into them to stone. Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, was beheaded by Perseus.
(lowercase) a mean, ugly, or repulsive woman.

Gorgon

/ ˈɡɔːɡə�� /

noun

Greek myth any of three winged monstrous sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, who had live snakes for hair, huge teeth, and brazen claws
informal.
often not capital a fierce or unpleasant woman

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Other �y��vlog Forms

�Ҵǰ�·��n��·�� [gawr-, goh, -nee-, uh, n], adjective

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Gorgon¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin �Ҵǰ��ō�� < Greek �Ҵǰ��ṓ, derivative of ��ǰ��ó�� dreadful

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Gorgon¹

via Latin �Ҵǰ��ō from Greek, from gorgos terrible

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For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living creatures to stone.

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I was stuck in bed with methicillin-resistant cellulitis, reeling over the forced cancellation of a trip to Brazil, when a friend reached out with a consolation prize: tickets to Gorgon City at the Shrine Auditorium.

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Night-shift workers at Chevron's Gorgon and Wheatstone facilities voted to restart strikes in the afternoon meeting, the Offshore Alliance, a coalition of two unions, said in a statement.

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Night-shift workers at Chevron's Gorgon and Wheatstone facilities voted to restart strikes in the afternoon meeting, the offshore alliance, a coalition of two unions, said in a statement.

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They were like “snake hair on the Gorgon’s head,” Adameyko and colleagues report today in Current Biology.

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