Definitions for Niobe

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Niobe Ni·o·be

Spelling: [nahy-oh-bee]

IPA: /ˈnaɪ oʊˌbi/

Niobe is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in Niobe (beino).

Definitions for Niobe

noun

1. the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss.

Examples for Niobe

Niobe would have made the response with a greater show of cheer.

Even in our own day there are mortal mothers who feel as Niobe felt.

Her sister stood erect in grief like a daughter of Niobe wept into stone.

This arrangement we meet with in the maidens of the Parthenon frieze and in a bust of Niobe.

I ought to be a Dido and Niobe and Cassandra rolled into one.

Perhaps the fate of Niobe is no fable, but a type of the callousness of our nature.

Leave me only this one,” cried Niobe, “just the youngest of so many.

And the sight of them brought a ray of joy to Niobe's white face.

Loudly did she proclaim her proud belief, and when Niobe heard it she laughed in scorn.

I always think what a guy Niobe must have been if she was indeed all tears.