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

1 sense of laocoon

Sense 1
Laocoon -- ((Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them)
       INSTANCE OF=> mythical being -- (an imaginary being of myth or fable)