Definitions for Danaides

Danaides Da·na·i·des

Spelling: [duh-ney-i-deez]
IPA: /dəˈneɪ ɪˌdiz/

Danaides is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in Danaides (aaddeins).

Definitions for Danaides

plural noun

  1. the 50 daughters of Danaus, 49 of whom were condemned to pour water forever into a leaky vessel for having murdered their husbands.

Examples for Danaides

It needed not only the energy of an American, but the tongue of a Dane and the perserverance of Danaides.

Can that be the abyss of which mythology warns us under the fable of the Danaides and their cask?

He might be compared to the Danaides; the more he got the more he spent.

It was like the cask of Danaides into which the public had been pleased to pour its deposits.

The history of practical medicine had been like the story of the Danaides.

Before, in that dreaming time, I saw that I had drawn water like the Danaides, in a pitcher full of holes.

One of the fifty daughters of Danaus, who were collectively called the Danaides.

Mrs. Smidgkin, Mrs. Smidgkin, are you aware that the rain pours outside like the tears of the Danaides on their wedding night?

Euripides begins with the opening lines of the Danaides (a play now lost).

When I saw her at work yesterday, it seemed as if I beheld her drawing water with the bottomless vessel of the Danaides.

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