Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Muse of tragedy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In class. myth., originally, the Muse of song and musical harmony, looked upon later as the especial patroness of tragedy.
- noun A planetoid, the eighteenth in order of discovery, first observed by Professor Hind at London in 1852.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class. Myth.) The Muse of tragedy.
- noun (Astron.) The eighteenth asteroid.
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- proper noun Greek mythology The
Muse oftragedy - proper noun astronomy 18 Melpomene, the
asteroid .
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- noun (Greek mythology) the Muse of tragedy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Melpomene; upon which the boaster of beauty, the moment he heard the word Melpomene, addresses the toast-master, "Oh! ho!
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893
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For hath not Herodotus (a man for his time, most skilfull and iudicial in Cosmographie, who writ aboue 2000. yeeres ago) in his 4. booke called Melpomene, signified vnto the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There was, for instance, a muse of tragedy, called Melpomene, a muse of the dance, Terpsichore, and so on through the nine arts.
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Melpomene, which is a heathen custom and not to be tolerated here.
Paste Jewels John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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All the information that my mother could obtain was, that the ship's company of the Druid had been turned over to another frigate called the Melpomene, the former having been declared not seaworthy, and in consequence condemned and broken up at Port Royal.
Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820
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For hath not Herodotus (a man for his time, most skilfull and iudicial in Cosmographie, who writ aboue 2000. yeeres ago) in his 4. booke called Melpomene, signified vnto the Portugales in plaine termes; that Africa, except the small Isthmus between the Arabian gulfe and the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The Fourth Book of the Histories, called Melpomene
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Not knowing the name of this courageous runner whose entry they had denied, the organizers called her 'Melpomene', after the Greek muse of Tragedy.
The fight of women athletes: "not appropriate for ladies" Elizabeth McClung 2007
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Not knowing the name of this courageous runner whose entry they had denied, the organizers called her 'Melpomene', after the Greek muse of Tragedy.
Archive 2007-02-01 Elizabeth McClung 2007
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"Melpomene," said the Lady Florence to her new slave, who was now kneeling on the love furs, "when you were a free woman and dared to steal my silk slave for your pleasure, did you kiss him?"
Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980
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