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eidolon

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7 lettersPronunciation /aɪˈdəʊlən/Sorted deilnooStarts with EEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. An eidolon is an image or representation of an idea.

Word origin

From Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “figure, representation”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “sight”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”). Doublet of aidoru, idol, and idolum and related to idea.

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  • As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
  • It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
  • […]Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon, inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.

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