Definitions for Phaedra

Phaedra Phae·dra

Spelling: [fee-druh, fed-ruh]
IPA: /ˈfi drə, ˈfɛd rə/

Phaedra is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Phaedra (aadehpr).

Definitions for Phaedra

noun

  1. the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.

Examples for Phaedra

By Antiope he had a son Hippolytus, with whom his second wife Phaedra fell in love.

She puts her venom in a magnificent beast, not a pathetic Phaedra.

He unpinned and flung aside the sheets as though to let Phaedra plead for herself.

You are fully decided to break faith with Phaedra, knowing what may come of it?

It was emblematic of a new state of society when Euripides created the Phaedra and the Medea.

Peaches had two young sons, Astala, 20 months, and Phaedra, 10 months, with her second husband, Thomas Cohen.

Queen Phaedra, when she was in love with Hippolytos, used to recline idly all day long under this same tree.

Is Phaedra the only woman whom love has driven to write a lying letter?

Phaedra suspects her plan and absolutely forbids her to speak with Hippolytus.

Like Phaedra she fell in love with me, her step-son, indeed called me her dear Hippolytus.

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