Definitions for Desdemona

Desdemona Des·de·mo·na

Spelling: [dez-duh-moh-nuh]
IPA: /ˌdɛz dəˈmoʊ nə/

Desdemona is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 407 anagrams from letters in Desdemona (addeemnos).

Definitions for Desdemona

noun

  1. (in Shakespeare's Othello) Othello's wife, murdered by her husband as a result of jealousy instilled by Iago.

Examples for Desdemona

So let us be, with our Desdemona of rights, unlike Othello “that loved not wisely, but too well.”

Went to Venice and fell in love with one Desdemona, an Italian girl.

"I think the history of Desdemona is the most affecting of all tales," said Miss Fane.

Their hit song, "Desdemona," was famously banned by the BBC thanks to Bolan's lyric, Lift up your Skirt and Fly.

For when has Desdemona shown high and plenteous wit or invention?

Desdemona, providentially finding employment at a Detroit mosque, witnesses the founding of the Nation of Islam.

She appears to have been the first female representative of Desdemona.

She made her first appearance in London in 1813, as Desdemona.

He sees, like Desdemona, her "visage in her mind," or her affections.

Maggie Smith was Desdemona, the victim of circumstance, in the 1965 Othello adaptation.

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