The Meaning of sphinx

• (n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
• (n.) On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.
• (n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.
• (n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.
• (n.) The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).

Synonyms

Sphinx

Rhymes

blinks , brinks , chinks , drinks , finks , inks , jinx , jynx , kinks , lincks , links , lynx , mincks , minks , pinks , sinks , skinks , spinks , stinks , thinks , winks