Usually means: Character in Greek mythology, warrior.
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  1. Neoptolemus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Neoptolemus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Neoptolemus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Neoptolemus: Wordnik
  5. Neoptolemus: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Neoptolemus: Dictionary.com
  7. Neoptolemus (Pontic general), Neoptolemus (general), Neoptolemus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Neoptolemus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Neoptolemus)

noun:  In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus, originally called Pyrrhus at birth, was the son of the mythical warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia, and the brother of Oneiros.Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 3 as cited in Photius, Bibliotheca 190.20 He became the progenitor of the ruling dynasty of the Molossians of ancient Epirus.
noun:  (died 321 BC) a Macedonian officer who served under Alexander the Great.
noun:  (flourished second half of 2nd century BC and first half of 1st century BC, died by 63 BC) a distinguished general of King Mithridates VI of Pontus.

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