sphinx   (Sound)

The noun sphinx has 3 senses

• sphinx -- (an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret)


• Sphinx -- ((Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon)


• sphinx -- (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)