What is the meaning of Sphinx?

noun

  • An inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret.
  • Greek mythology. ( a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon)
  • One of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians. .
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