1. A light, open, four-wheel carriage, so called from the son of Phoebus and Clymene, who, being at his own request permitted to guide the chariot of the sun, nearly set the world on fire, but was prevented by Jupiter, who transfixed him with a thunderbolt; a genus of palmiped birds.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• phanton,
• phatom,
• phamton,
• phemon,
• phasion,
• phazon,
• phenon,
• phamon,
• phyton,
• phaeaton,
• faton,
• -haeton,
• phaetin,
• paeton,
• pheaton,
• pleton,
• whaeton,
• fatton,
• Ephameron,
• phaen

• phaethon,
• photon.

The adjective form of the word "phaeton" is "phaetonic".

The plural of the "phaeton" can be the "phaetons".

The singular of the "phaeton" can be the "phaeton".