Usually means: Loyal follower, often unquestioningly obedient.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Myrmidon:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. myrmidon: Merriam-Webster
  2. Myrmidon, myrmidon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Myrmidon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Myrmidon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Myrmidon, myrmidon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Myrmidon, myrmidon: Wordnik
  7. Myrmidon, myrmidon: Wiktionary
  8. Myrmidon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Myrmidon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Myrmidon, myrmidon: Dictionary.com
  11. myrmidon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Myrmidon (hero), Myrmidon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Myrmidon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. myrmidon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Myrmidon: Rhymezone
  16. myrmidon: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Myrmidon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. myrmidon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. myrmidon: FreeDictionary.org
  20. myrmidon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. myrmidon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Myrmidon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. myrmidon-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Myrmidon: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. myrmidon: A Word A Day
  2. myrmidon: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See myrmidons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Myrmidon)

noun:  A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity (sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc).
noun:  (Greek mythology) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompanied Achilles, their king, in the Trojan War.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The ancestral hero of the Myrmidon tribe, son of Zeus and Eurymedusa.

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