Deirdre Definition

dîrdrə, -drē
noun
A feminine name.
Webster's New World
An Irish heroine who elopes to Scotland with her lover to avoid marrying the king: when the lover is treacherously killed, she commits suicide.
Webster's New World
pronoun
A female given name.
Wiktionary
(Irish mythology) The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Fedlimid mac Daill. At birth, Cathbad foretold that she would be very beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her. She committed suicide.
Wiktionary
A beautiful, but suicidal woman.
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Deirdre Sentence Examples

  • The Druids are represented as being able to foretell the future and to perform magic. Before setting out on the great expedition against Ulster, Medb, queen of Connaught, goes to consult her Druid, and just before the famous heroine Derdriu (Deirdre) is born, Cathbu prophesies what sort of a woman she will be.

  • If only the nations of the world could emulate these situations, " said the headmistress of the Dersingham Road school, Deirdre Turner.

  • Yet, viewer response continued to be solid with more ITV viewers watching Coronation Street characters Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton get married than Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.

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