Meleager

[ mel-ee-ey-jer ]

noun

1. flourished 1st century b.c., Greek epigrammatist.
2. Classical Mythology. the heroic son of Althaea, an Argonaut, and the slayer of the Calydonian boar. Compare Calydonian hunt.

Meleager

/ ˌmɛlɪˈeɪɡə /

noun

1. Greek myth one of the Argonauts, slayer of the Calydonian boar

Example Sentences

Meleager, whose spear provides the final deathblow, has been moved from the left side of the marble composition to a central position in the painting.

From Los Angeles Times

Technically speaking it was he who killed it, but the honors of the hunt went to Atalanta and Meleager insisted that they should give her the skin.

From Literature

As it blazed up, Meleager fell to the ground dying, and by the time it was consumed his spirit had slipped away from his body.

From Literature

They felt themselves insulted and were furiously angry at having the prize go to a girl—as, no doubt, was the case with others, but they were Meleager’s uncles and did not need to stand on any ceremony with him.

From Literature

They declared that Atalanta should not have the skin and told Meleager he had no more right to give it away than anyone else had.

From Literature