Definitions for Meropes

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Meropes Mer·o·pe

Spelling: [mer-uh-pee]

IPA: /ˈmɛr ə pi/

Meropes is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in Meropes (eemoprs).

Definitions for Meropes

noun

1. a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.
2. a queen of Messenia, the wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus, who with Aepytus sought revenge upon Polyphontes, the brother and murderer of Cresphontes.
3. one of the six visible stars in the Pleiades.

Examples for Meropes

Transferred to the care of Polybus and Merope, the babe became to them as a son, for they were childless.

Among his numerous plays , Merope and Saul, and perhaps Mirra, are accounted his masterpieces.

But Merope had borne to Cresphontes a third son, called Æpytus; him she gave to her own father to bring up.

But instead of meeting this requirement, Orion attempted to elope with Merope.

He was the reputed son of Polybus and Merope, rulers of Corinth.

Surely it is not in Empedocles on Etna, and surely it is not in Merope.

The indisputable merits of the play cannot blind us to the fact that Douglas is the offspring of Merope.

There is Merope to bear witness to the fact; and of Merope what is there to say?

He was the author of 17 dramatic pieces, some of them, such as his versions of Voltaire's Zaire and Merope, being adaptations.

In his epistle to Maffei, prefixed to his Merope, he delivers almost the same opinion, though I doubt with a little irony.