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jocaste
Jo·cas·ta
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dʒoʊˈkæs
tə
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kas
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noun
1.
Classical Mythology
.
a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer.
2.
a female given
name
.
Also,
Jo·cas·te.
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Jocasta
(dʒəʊˈkæstə)
—
n
Greek myth
a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius, who married Oedipus without either of them knowing he was her son
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