Usually means: Three-headed dog guards underworld.
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  1. Cerberus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cerberus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cerberus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cerberus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cerberus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cerberus, cerberus: Wordnik
  7. Cerberus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Cerberus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Cerberus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cerberus: Dictionary.com
  11. Cerberus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Cerberus (Cardcaptor Sakura), Cerberus (anime), Cerberus (constellation), Cerberus (disambiguation), Cerberus (film), Cerberus (protein), Cerberus (snake), Cerberus (sonar), Cerberus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cerberus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cerberus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Cerberus: Rhymezone
  16. Cerberus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Cerberus: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. cerberus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cerberus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Cerberus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Cerberus: Who2
  22. Cerberus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. cerberus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. Cerberus: Merriam-Webster
  25. Cerberus: Wiktionary

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  1. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

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  1. Cerberus: Encyclopedia

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  1. Cerberus: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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  1. Cerberus: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Cerberus: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cerberus)

▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) A former constellation of the northern sky, near Hercules.

Similar:
Kerberos, Orthrus, Ceto, echidna, cerastes, Hecatoncheires, Erebus, Campe, Typhon, Cottus, more...

Opposite:
hydra

Phrases:
Cerberus Capital Management, HMVS Cerberus, Cerberus FTP Server, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Crotalus cerberus, more...

Adjectives:
headed, old, female, perfect, huge, hound, grim, british, terrible, dog, watchful

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Similar:
Kerberos, Orthrus, Ceto, echidna, cerastes, Hecatoncheires, Erebus, Campe, Typhon, Cottus, more...

Opposite:
hydra

Phrases:
Cerberus Capital Management, HMVS Cerberus, Cerberus FTP Server, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Crotalus cerberus, more...

Adjectives:
headed, old, female, perfect, huge, hound, grim, british, terrible, dog, watchful

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark gray,     fiery orange,     blood red, more...



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