the supreme god of the ancient Greeks, who became ruler of gods and humans after he dethroned his father Cronus and defeated the Titans. He was the husband of his sister Hera and father by her and others of many gods, demigods, and mortals. He wielded thunderbolts and ruled the heavens, while his brothers Poseidon and Hades ruled the sea and underworld respectively
Roman counterpart: Jupiter
Zeus in American English
(zus; zjus)
noun
Greek Mythology
the chief deity, son of Cronus and Rhea and husband of Hera: identified with the Roman Jupiter
Word origin
Gr: for IE base see deity
Examples of 'Zeus' in a sentence
Zeus
I feel as Zeus must have before Athena burst out of the top of his head.
Weldon, Fay SPLITTING
`They were the sons of Leda and were transformed by Zeus into the constellation Gemini so that they would never be separated.
Isabel Wolff RESCUING ROSE (2002)
Radley asked to use the hall telephone and placed a call to the New York distributors for the Zeus typewriter.
Dixon, Franklin W. THE MYSTERY OF THE CHINESE JUNK (1960)