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dido
1[ dahy-doh ]
noun
- a mischievous trick; prank; antic.
- a bauble or trifle.
Dido
2[ dahy-doh ]
noun
- Phoenician Elissa. Classical Mythology. a queen of Carthage who killed herself when abandoned by Aeneas.
- a female given name.
Dido
1/ ˈdaɪdəʊ /
noun
- classical myth a princess of Tyre who founded Carthage and became its queen. Virgil tells of her suicide when abandoned by her lover Aeneas
dido
2/ ˈdaɪdəʊ /
noun
- an antic; prank; trick
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Example Sentences
But Dido got to the loot first, and absconded with it to North Africa, where she set up her kingdom.
No naïf or innocent, Dido knows plenty about ambition, and how heartless it can make a (hu)man.
The critic, in censuring poor Dido and her sister, totally forgets their very reasonable ground of provocation.
In utter misery Dido, on pretext of burning all Æneas' love-gifts, prepares a pyre and summons a sorceress.
Dido sends Anna with a last appeal to Æneas, who nevertheless, in spite of struggles, obeys the gods (469-513).
Venus feigns assent to Juno's proposal that Æneas shall marry Dido and be king of Carthage.
He fled to Dido's father Belus, and with the help of the latter founded a new kingdom in Cyprus.
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