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

1 sense of damocles

Sense 1
Damocles -- (the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC))
       INSTANCE OF=> courtier -- (an attendant at the court of a sovereign)