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OTHELLO

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Overview

OTHELLO (noun)
  The noun OTHELLO has 1 sense:

1. the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wifeplay

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


English dictionary: Word details


OTHELLO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))


 Context examples 


Neither Hamlet, nor Macbeth, nor Othello, nor Douglas, nor The Gamester, presented anything that could satisfy even the tragedians; and The Rivals, The School for Scandal, Wheel of Fortune, Heir at Law, and a long et cetera, were successively dismissed with yet warmer objections.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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