Zeus meaning

[zjuːs]

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Zeus (English pronunciation: /ˈzjuːs/ ZEWS); Ancient Greek Ζεύς Zeús, pronounced [zdeǔ̯s] in Classical Attic; Modern Greek: Δίας Días pronounced [ˈði.as]) is the god of sky and thunder and the ruler of the Olympians of Mount Olympus.
Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he is married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort is Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione.
As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe.

Definition of Zeus in English Dictionary

Proper noun
1. (Greek mythology) Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - The classical panoply of gods and demigods — satyrs and centaurs and even one girl who, quite properly and unpuritanically, was sired by Zeus and born to a television starlet — were all made new.
  - In Classical legend Cottys was the hundred-handed brother of the hundred-handed monsters Briareus and Gyes, allies of the God Zeus in his war against the Titans on the borders of Thrace and Thessaly.
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - You guys go free the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handed ones," said Zeus.