DICTIONARY ENTRY
3 SYLLABLES
damocles
/'dæmə,kliz/ · dæməkliz
Damocles has 3 syllables: dam · o · cles.
dam
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o
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cles
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noun. The Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC).
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