eidolon: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

	Word of the Day for Monday, October 29, 2012 eidolon \ahy-DOH-luhn\, noun: 1. A phantom; apparition. 2. An ideal. "An eidolon, a manifestation, if you will, sent up to us from the uttermost deeps to bring about the end of the world." -- Neil Gaiman, Looking for the Girl It was the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, and desolation; the putrid, dripping eidolon of unwholesome revelation, the awful baring of that which the merciful earth should always hide. -- H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider Eidolon comes from the more common word idol, which originally referred to pagan religious idols. It was first used in the 1820s. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› How the prefix "franken-" took on a life of its own. . . As Halloween quickly approaches, Frankenstorm is sneaking up on the East Coast. Forecasters are calling the hurricane headed for New York, New Jersey, and as far inland as Ohio, "Frankenstorm" because (like the monster in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) this storm is stitched together from three different weather systems, Hurricane... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: thokozani031@gmail.com Subscriber since: February 15, 2012 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2012 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!