Danaides

[duh-ney-i-deez]

Da·na·i·des

[duh-ney-i-deez]
plural noun Classical Mythology.
the 50 daughters of Danaus, 49 of whom were condemned to pour water forever into a leaky vessel for having murdered their husbands.
Also, Da·na·i·dae [duh-ney-i-dee] , Da·na·ids [duh-ney-idz] .

Dan·a·id·e·an [dan-ee-id-ee-uhn, dan-ee-i-dee-uhn] , adjective
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Danaides is always a great word to know.
So is apple of discord. Does it mean:
the Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry; one of the Graces
a golden apple inscribed ?For the fairest,? thrown by the goddess of discord among the gods but awarded to Aphrodite, causing the Trojan War
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Danaides (dəˈneɪɪˌdiːz)
 
pl n , sing Danaid
the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom
 
Danaidean
 
adj

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