BLUEBEARD

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• BLUEBEARD (noun)
  The noun BLUEBEARD has 1 sense:

1. (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience

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

• BLUEBEARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience

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))

Domain category:

fairy story; fairy tale; fairytale (a story about fairies; told to amuse children)

 Context examples 

I lingered in the long passage to which this led, separating the front and back rooms of the third storey: narrow, low, and dim, with only one little window at the far end, and looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard's castle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)