Ariadne
[,æri'ædni]
Definition
(noun.) beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.
Editor: Segre--From WordNet
Examples
- I saw Goethe's house, Schiller's statue, and Dannecker's famous 'Ariadne. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He entered the Labyrinth (which may have been the Cnossos Palace) by the aid of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, and slew the Minotaur. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor you, nor any other Theseus, can thread the labyrinth, to which perhaps some unkind Ariadne has the clue. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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