Usually means: Mythical Greek archer, Heracles' companion.
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  1. Philoctetes, Philoctetes: Merriam-Webster
  2. Philoctetes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Philoctetes: Wordnik
  4. Philoctetes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Philoctetes: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. philoctetes: Dictionary.com
  7. Philoctetes (Disney), Philoctetes (Euripides), Philoctetes (Euripides play), Philoctetes (Sophocles), Philoctetes (Sophocles play), Philoctetes (play), Philoctetes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Philoctetes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Philoctetes, Philoctetes: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (Philoctetes)

noun:  Philoctetes (Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: , stressed on the third syllable, -tet-John C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd edition, entry Philoctetes.), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and DemonassaHyginus, Fabulae, 102 or Methone.
noun:  (Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: , stressed on the third syllable, -tet-John C. Wells, Longman pronunciation dictionary, 3rd edition, entry Philoctetes.) a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived).
noun:  a play by the Athenian poet Aeschylus.
noun:  a tragedy by the Athenian poet Euripides.


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