Definitions for Antigone

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Antigone An·tig·o·ne

Spelling: [an-tig-uh-nee]

IPA: /ænˈtɪg əˌni/

Antigone is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in Antigone (aeginnot).

Definitions for Antigone

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who defied her uncle, King Creon, by performing funeral rites over her brother, Polynices, and was condemned to be immured alive in a cave.
2. (italics) a tragedy (c440 b.c.) by Sophocles.

Examples for Antigone

Antigone was the daughter of the old King Oedipus of Thebes.

What love could be more loyal and more passionate than Hmon's love for Antigone?

Antigone, Juliet and Robinson Crusoe were all the victims of accident.

Antigone, for aiding in the pious Theft, was adjudged to be buried alive.

Sophocles, the dramatist, puts noble words into the mouth of Antigone.

Antigone would think she was in prison, to be used like that.

Antigone and Ismene then enter, each bewailing the death of their brothers.

In this act of holy devotion Antigone succeeded; Polynikes was buried.

The existence of Marie-Antoinette is problematical; that of Antigone is certain.

Did you put it into his head to paint me as Antigone, that he might have my likeness for this?