Definitions for Oedipus

Oedipus Oed·i·pus

Spelling: [ed-uh-puh s, ee-duh
IPA: /ˈɛd ə pəs, ˈi də-/

Oedipus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in Oedipus (deiopsu).

Definitions for Oedipus

noun

  1. a king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, and the father by Jocasta of Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.

Examples for Oedipus

Oedipus and Amyntor and Theseus cursed their children, and their curses took effect.

The notion of intra-family sex has inspired—and revolted—onlookers from Oedipus to Deliverance.

Probably John Gielgud's during the dress rehearsal of Peter Brook's production of Seneca's Oedipus at the Vic.

Once more Oedipus reappears, barred for ever from the light of day.

But in the moral, Oedipus is all the majesty of a power still royal.

He had fortunately, at that time, just finished his Oedipus at Colonos.

Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.

Remember that at your age one has need, like Oedipus, of an Egeria!

Then, at last, outspeaks Oedipus, and from reproach bursts into curses.

The Agamemnon, the Oedipus, the Bacchae are not to be explained wholly by them.

Word Value for Oedipus
Scrable

0

Words with friends

0

Similar words for Oedipus
Word of the day