Definitions for Caliban

Caliban Cal·i·ban

Spelling: [kal-uh-ban]
IPA: /ˈkæl əˌbæn/

Caliban is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in Caliban (aabciln).

Definitions for Caliban

noun

  1. the ugly, beastlike slave of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Examples for Caliban

Clegg first introduces himself to Miranda as Ferdinand, but she later dubs him Caliban.

Caliban talks to himself about "that other, whom his dam called God."

The mother might have been a twin sister of Sycorax, the dam of Caliban.

Is the character of Caliban apparently in keeping with his appearance?

Did this Caliban have some understanding of what was at stake in his heart and soul?

And cruder devices certainly deepen the effect of a name; Caliban is a rough anagram of “cannibal,” and Cassio contains an “ass.”

Again and again he parried the attack, until Caliban was disposed of.

It was Caliban, as well as Ferdinand, courting fair Miranda.

Caliban had crept within a foot of him, and was pulling himself into position.

As Caliban fell he had clambered up, and was now blocking the entrance.

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