Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun achilles

1 sense of achilles

Sense 1
Achilles -- (a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel')
       INSTANCE OF=> mythical being -- (an imaginary being of myth or fable)