On this page you'll find 2 example sentences with Hephaestion. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Hephaestion in a sentence
Hephaestion meaning
An ancient Macedonian nobleman and general in the army of Alexander the Great, noted as a lifelong personal friend of Alexander's.
Using Hephaestion
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient Macedonian nobleman and general in the army of Alexander the Great, noted as a lifelong personal friend of Alexander's.
Context around Hephaestion
- Average sentence length in these examples: 16.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hephaestion
- In this selection, "hephaestion" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 16.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grammarian, grammarian and ench stand out and add context to how "hephaestion" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include felt after hephaestion s death and hephaestion grammarian hephaestion ench. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hephaestion" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hephaestion
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Heraclitus All.5 The hymn to Hermes, fr308(b), was quoted by Hephaestion (grammarian) Hephaestion Ench. (16 words)
The anguish that Alexander felt after Hephaestion 's death may also have contributed to his declining health. (17 words)
The anguish that Alexander felt after Hephaestion 's death may also have contributed to his declining health. (17 words)
Heraclitus All.5 The hymn to Hermes, fr308(b), was quoted by Hephaestion (grammarian) Hephaestion Ench. (16 words)
Example sentences (2)
Heraclitus All.5 The hymn to Hermes, fr308(b), was quoted by Hephaestion (grammarian) Hephaestion Ench.
The anguish that Alexander felt after Hephaestion 's death may also have contributed to his declining health.