HELEN

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• HELEN (noun)
  The noun HELEN has 1 sense:

1. (Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War

  Familiarity information: HELEN used as a noun is very rare.

• HELEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Helen; Helen of Troy

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

 Context examples 

No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if others don't love me I would rather die than live—I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

‘Tell me, Helen,’ said she, ‘have you ever heard anyone whistle in the dead of the night?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A newspaper with a sworn circulation of half a million published an original and spontaneous poem by Helen Della Delmar, in which she gibed and sneered at Brissenden.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Seamen would tell us how they had left London and been engaged ere nightfall, or sailed out of Portsmouth and been yard-arm to yard-arm before they had lost sight of St. Helen’s light.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What is your name besides Burns? Helen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Helen Della Delmar (proclaimed with a flourish of trumpets and rolling of tomtoms to be the greatest woman poet in the United States) denied Brissenden a seat beside her on Pegasus and wrote voluminous letters to the public, proving that he was no poet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Helen!

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another paper, in deadly seriousness, reproving Helen Della Delmar for her parody, said: But unquestionably Miss Delmar wrote it in a moment of badinage and not quite with the respect that one great poet should show to another and perhaps to the greatest.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)