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Erebus meaning

  1. One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
  2. The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
  3. Ellipsis of Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.

Synonyms of Erebus

greek deity

Related words

Other words often associated with Erebus or its synonyms:

deity god divinity immortal

Using Erebus

  • The main meaning on this page is: One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos. | The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld. | Ellipsis of Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.
  • Useful related words include: greek deity.
  • In the example corpus, erebus often appears in combinations such as: hms erebus, erebus and, with erebus.

Context around Erebus

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

hms 7× mount 2× born 1×

Often after:

brodie 1× neutralized 1× earlier 1× produced 1×

Sentence patterns with Erebus

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

board hms erebus and featured 1× discovered hms erebus 1× exploring hms erebus earlier this 1× from around erebus s funnel 1× into mt erebus in 1979 1× later born erebus is the 1× lead to erebus 1× live in erebus and are 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a similar erroneous 1× and nyx from 1× description the erinyes 1× gordon played john 1× heimgartner finished third 1× intense ice conditions 1×

Common sentence endings:

1 suspected eruption 1× and hemera day 1× antarctic ozone hole 1× by a monster 1× caught my imagination 1× discovered hms erebus 1×

Words around Erebus

Just before it in the word index:

erebuni 4 erebor 10 ere 24 erdtree 39 erdrich 21 erdos 2

Just after it in the word index:

erechtheion 3 erechtheus 3 ereck 5 erect 228 erected 733 erectile 82

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaditya 24 aardman 24 abbess 24 abbo 24 abena 24 aberg 24

Corpus analysis for Erebus

  • In this selection, "erebus" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, hms, mount, born, brodie, neutralized and earlier stand out and add context to how "erebus" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include board hms erebus and featured and discovered hms erebus. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "erebus" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with erebus

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Infernal Gates lead to Erebus. (5 words)

Heimgartner finished third, with Erebus’ Brodie Kostecki and Brown rounding out the top five. (14 words)

Its sister ship, the H.M.S. Erebus, was discovered just two years prior. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

The story sees the player onboard a sailing ship setting out to find and rescue two missing ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which were on a mission to find a path through the Arctic to East Asia—or at least discover their grisly end. (46 words)

Then came Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (the cave-like space under the earth; the later-born Erebus is the darkness in this space), and Eros (representing sexual desire - the urge to reproduce - instead of the emotion of love as is the common misconception). (42 words)

Ryan Harris, who was part of the 2022 field season on the wreck of HMS Erebus, said the book, which he thinks is one of the top finds, is currently at a lab being analyzed. (35 words)

Example sentences (19)

Heimgartner finished third, with Erebus’ Brodie Kostecki and Brown rounding out the top five.

Ryan Harris, who was part of the 2022 field season on the wreck of HMS Erebus, said the book, which he thinks is one of the top finds, is currently at a lab being analyzed.

Many times, the volcanoes that have eruptions that last decades are ones like Kīlauea in Hawai'i, Yasur in Vanuatu or Erebus in Antarctica, where hot, runny basalt continuously erupts in lava lakes.

The story sees the player onboard a sailing ship setting out to find and rescue two missing ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which were on a mission to find a path through the Arctic to East Asia—or at least discover their grisly end.

When the steam clouds cleared from around Erebus’s funnel, three gleaming bronze bells appeared, reproductions of the original whistles, forged in Aberdeenshire.

Gordon played John Weekes, a carpenter on board HMS Erebus, and featured alongside Mad Men actor Jared Harris and Game of Thrones star Tobias Menzies.

Infernal Gates lead to Erebus.

On November 2, RAF Typhoons and the monitor HMS Erebus neutralized German coastal strongpoints and engaged the W11 battery itself.

Advertentie

Its sister ship, the H.M.S. Erebus, was discovered just two years prior.

It wasn’t until 2014, though, that an expedition supported by a broad partnership of Canadian government agencies, Inuit, the Government of Nunavut and other groups discovered HMS Erebus.

Kathryn Collins, daughter of Jim Collins, who piloted the Air New Zealand DC10 which crashed into Mt Erebus in 1979.

Intense ice conditions mean anxious archaeologists hoping to find more clues to the mystery of the fated Franklin expedition only got to spend a day and a half exploring HMS Erebus earlier this month.

Something about Erebus and its name—you know, the son of Chaos—caught my imagination.

And Nyx "from union in love" with Erebus produced Aether (Light) and Hemera (Day).

A similar erroneous assertion is that soluble halogen compounds from the volcanic plume of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica are a major contributor to the Antarctic ozone hole.

Description The Erinyes live in Erebus and are more ancient deities than any of the Olympians.

Mount Erebus (3,795 m), a stratovolcano on Ross Island with 10 known eruptions and 1 suspected eruption.

Then came Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (the cave-like space under the earth; the later-born Erebus is the darkness in this space), and Eros (representing sexual desire - the urge to reproduce - instead of the emotion of love as is the common misconception).

The two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror become icebound the first winter, and the captains and crew struggle to survive while being stalked across an Arctic landscape by a monster.

Advertentie

Common combinations with erebus

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "erebus" in a sentence?
An example: "Heimgartner finished third, with Erebus’ Brodie Kostecki and Brown rounding out the top five." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "erebus" from authentic English texts.
What does "erebus" mean?
Erebus means: One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
What are synonyms of "erebus"?
Common synonyms of "erebus" include: greek deity.
How many example sentences with "erebus" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "erebus", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.