Meaning Of The Word Hermes

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Hermes in American English
the god who serves as herald and messenger of the other gods, generally pictured with winged shoes and hat, carrying a caduceus: he is also the god of science, commerce, eloquence, and cunning, and guide of departed souls to Hades: identified with the Rom
noun: the ancient Greek herald and messenger of the gods and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft

Hermes in British English 1
noun: the messenger and herald of the gods; the divinity of commerce, cunning, theft, travellers, and rascals. He was represented as wearing winged sandals

Hermes in British English 2
noun: a small asteroid some 800 m in diameter that passed within 670 000 kilometres of the earth in 1937, and is now lost

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