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SUTTEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suttee mean? 

SUTTEE (noun)
  The noun SUTTEE has 1 sense:

1. the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husbandplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SUTTEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("suttee" is a kind of...):

self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide (the act of killing yourself)


 Context examples 


Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as he had: but I should bide that time, and not be hurried away in a suttee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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