What does Chimera mean?

Definitions for Chimera
kɪˈmɪər ə, kaɪ-chimera

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Chimera, Chimaeranoun

    (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

  2. chimera, chimaeranoun

    a grotesque product of the imagination

Wiktionary

  1. chimeranoun

    Chimera, or any fabulous creature with parts from different animals.

  2. chimeranoun

    A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.

  3. chimeranoun

    An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes.

  4. chimeranoun

    A gargoyle (fictional winged creature)

  5. chimeranoun

    (usually chimaera) A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.

  6. Chimeranoun

    A mythical monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

  7. Etymology: From. The fabulous monster in Lycea (with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail), supposedly personification of snow or winter, originally "year-old she-goat", from. Meaning "wild fantasy" first recorded 1587.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CHIMERAnoun

    A vain and wild fancy, as remote from reality as the existence of the poetical chimera, a monster feigned to have the head of a lion, the belly of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

    Etymology: Chimæra, Lat.

    In short, the force of dreams is of a piece,
    Chimeras all; and more absurd, or less. John Dryden, Fables.

    No body joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of a horse, to be the complex ideas of any real substances, unless he has a mind to fill his head with chimeras, and his discourse with unintelligible words. John Locke.

ChatGPT

  1. chimera

    A chimera is a mythical creature or concept originating from Greek mythology, often depicted as a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature with parts from more than one animal; traditionally a lion, a goat, and a serpent. In a broader term, it refers to any imaginary or mythical beast with parts taken from various animals, or anything composed of disparate parts. In genetics, a chimera is an organism or tissue that contains at least two different sets of DNA, each coming from the fusion of separate embryos.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chimeranoun

    a monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon

  2. Chimeranoun

    a vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author

  3. Etymology: [L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. a she-goat, a chimera, fr. he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]

Wikidata

  1. Chimera

    The Chimera was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing female and male creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of three animals — a lion, a snake and a goat. Usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that ended in a snake's head, the Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra. The term chimera has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe a creature perceived as wildly imaginative or implausible.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Chimera

    Chimæra, ki-mē′ra, n. a fabulous, fire-spouting monster, with a lion's head, a serpent's tail, and a goat's body: any idle or wild fancy: a picture of an animal having its parts made up of various animals: a genus of cartilaginous fishes, often ranked along with the sharks and rays.—adjs. Chimer′ic, -al, of the nature of a chimera: wild: fanciful.—adv. Chimer′ically. [L.,—Gr. chimaira, a she-goat.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Chimera

    An individual that contains cell populations derived from different zygotes.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CHIMERA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Chimera is ranked #58876 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Chimera surname appeared 344 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Chimera.

    96.5% or 332 total occurrences were White.
    2.6% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Chimera in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Chimera in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Chimera in a Sentence

  1. Robert Raben:

    Justice Stephen Breyer may pine for a time that never was -- a fantasy era when judicial selection wasn't political, that's a chimera, and we on the left need to accept the fact that if you're assigned a bill number and marked up in a committee, it's Supreme Court confirmation politics.

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