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CLEOPATRA
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• CLEOPATRA (noun)
The noun CLEOPATRA has 1 sense:
1. beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)
Familiarity information: CLEOPATRA used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Egyptian (a native or inhabitant of Egypt)
female monarch; queen; queen regnant (a female sovereign ruler)
Context examples
She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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