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DIDO (didoes)
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Irregular inflected form: didoes
• DIDO (noun)
The noun DIDO has 1 sense:
1. (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas
Familiarity information: DIDO used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
princess (a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign))
Domain category:
Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)
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