Usually means: Mythological figure who founded Thebes.
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  1. Cadmus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cadmus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cadmus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cadmus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cadmus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cadmus: Wordnik
  7. Cadmus: Wiktionary
  8. Cadmus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Cadmus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cadmus: Dictionary.com
  11. Cadmus (disambiguation), Cadmus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cadmus: Rhymezone
  13. cadmus: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cadmus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Cadmus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Cadmus: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)

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  1. Cadmus: Encyclopedia

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  1. cadmus: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cadmus)

noun:  (Greek mythology) A Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor of Tyre. Was sent by his royal parents to seek and return his sister Europa after being abducted from Phoenicia by Zeus. Credited with founding Greek city of Thebes and inventing Greek alphabet.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Linn County, Kansas, United States.
noun:  A surname.

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