A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.
Used in a Sentence
xerxes
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for xerxes.
Editorial note
Well yeah, but the power structure of Darius and Xerxes who were pursuing these invasions was utterly destroyed by Alexander.
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Definitions3
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Quick take
A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of xerxes gathered in one view.
(historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.
(historical) Xerxes II, a Persian king who ruled for 45 days in 424 BC before being assassinated.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for xerxes.
noun
A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.
noun
(historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.
noun
(historical) Xerxes II, a Persian king who ruled for 45 days in 424 BC before being assassinated.
Example sentences
Well yeah, but the power structure of Darius and Xerxes who were pursuing these invasions was utterly destroyed by Alexander.
It reminds me of the movie 300, where all Xerxes demands is that you kneel.
There's a direct causative path initiated by Xerxes I when he launched the second invasion of Greece.
As a tribute, my workstation and laptop are names xerxes and shodan.
My cat Xerxes was found to violate this trademark on multiple occasions.
I would argue this is more a result of the defeat of Xerxes at Thermopylae.
He was the son of Xerxes I and Queen Amestris.
I dismantled the Xerxes game god from Power (they take on names.) There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who would epar dna redrum eruoy ylimaf before being discovered for their secrets.
Quote examples
I am imagining the words "Man Up" at Thermopylae, hurling a spear at Xerxes.
One particular offender was “Xerxes” in the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, which was spelled as “Cselkcess” in the official Viz translation and something similar in various scanlations.
Maybe in the 1990s this would have given you trouble, but these days you just pop over to ja.wikipedia.org and look for クセルクセス, and find out that this is how “Xerxes” is transliterated into Japanese.
> One particular offender was “Xerxes” in the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, which was spelled as “Cselkcess” in the official Viz translation and something similar in various scanlations.
Proper noun examples
Maybe there are impressive XML parsers (Xerxes is 188,000 lines of Java!), but I don't want those.
Another thing we could do is watch the documentary 300 to learn about how the Spartans fought off Xerxes.
Windows PC is Xerxes, after the AI that gets completely overtaken, and linux server is shodan, the AI that thinks it's smarter than it really is.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use xerxes in a sentence?
Well yeah, but the power structure of Darius and Xerxes who were pursuing these invasions was utterly destroyed by Alexander.
What does xerxes mean?
A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.
What part of speech is xerxes?
xerxes is commonly used as noun.