Definitions for Euryclea

Euryclea Eu·ry·cle·a

Spelling: [yoo r-i-klee-uh, yur-]
IPA: /ˌyʊər ɪˈkli ə, ˌyɜr-/

Euryclea is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in Euryclea (aceelruy).

Definitions for Euryclea

noun

  1. (in the Odyssey) the nurse of Telemachus who recognized the disguised Odysseus by a scar on his leg.

Examples for Euryclea

Even to her he told a feigned story, but she bade the old nurse Euryclea take care of him, and wash his feet.

And when this was done, that Euryclea, the nurse, should go to Penelop and tell her that her husband was indeed returned.

Euryclea did as she was told, and bolted the women inside their room.

The good nurse Euryclea tells her of Telemachus's plan, and lulls her queen's grief.

Nevertheless, Euryclea, take his bed outside the bed chamber that he himself built.

Then the aged nurse Euryclea, who had tended him in his youth, is asked to wash the feet of the old man.

She then sent him to the bath, and bade Euryclea wait upon him.

And he ordered Euryclea to wash the blood-stained floors, and to bring sulphur and torches that the place might be purified.

So the old nurse Euryclea bathed the feet of her master whom she had dandled in her arms as a child.

Euryclea did as she was told and closed the doors of the women's apartments.

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