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Mad maiden of "Hamlet"
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ophelia
Alternative clues for the word ophelia
- Daughter of Polonius in "Hamlet"
- Sister of Laertes, in "Hamlet"
- Shakespearean character in a Millais painting
- Polonius' daughter
- Shakespeare character who coins the term "primrose path"
- Shakespeare character who introduced the phrase "primrose path"
- She goes mad in "Hamlet"
- Shakespeare character who drowns
Word definitions for ophelia in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Ophelia " is a song written by Robbie Robertson that was first released by The Band on their 1975 album Northern Lights – Southern Cross . It was the lead single from the album. It has also appeared on several of the group's live and compilation albums ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Greek opheleia "help, aid," from ophelein "to help, aid, assist," ophelos "advantage, help," from PIE root *obhel- "to avail" (cognates: Greek ophelos "advantage," Armenian avelum "increase, abound").
Usage examples of ophelia.
Ophelia, like many figureheads of her day, had been arrayed upon the beakhead of the ship, rather than positioned below the bowsprit.
Ophelia with her hair in curlpapers, and bearing the white milk-jug that was to be left on the doorstep ready for the milkman.
It was a day or two after the conversation between Marie and Miss Ophelia, that Tom, Adolph, and about half a dozen others of the St.
The funeral of a rich person was to them what the funeral of Alcestis or Ophelia is to the educated.
Major Jaunty Blair and his daughter, Bethany, who once played Ophelia at Oxford.
Ophelia worrying herself, from day to day, with her, as a kind of chronic plague, to whose inflictions she became, in time, as accustomed, as persons sometimes do to the neuralgia or sick headache.
After Miss Ophelia had taken the rusks, Dinah followed the woman to the door.
Miss Ophelia was so indignant at the barefaced lie, that she caught the child and shook her.
Miss Ophelia, after this, did labor, with a commendable degree of zeal and energy, on her new subject.
While she was thinking what to say, Marie gradually wiped away her tears, and smoothed her plumage in a general sort of way, as a dove might be supposed to make toilet after a shower, and began a housewifely chat with Miss Ophelia, concerning cupboards, closets, linen-presses, store-rooms, and other matters, of which the latter was, by common understanding, to assume the direction, --giving her so many cautious directions and charges, that a head less systematic and business-like than Miss Ophelia's would have been utterly dizzied and confounded.
This man I loved, Dane Blackmoor, said it could make me took like snarling Medusa or a pre-Raphaelite Ophelia, depending on my level of crankiness on any given day.
But the Ophelia, for all her blowzy airs, was a lady, and a kind-hearted one as well.
The cocooning banks were far upriver, beyond the reach of a ship of her draft, but Ophelia was an adept meddler and an avid listener.
Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with `virgin crants and maiden strewments.
Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with`virgin crants and maiden strewments.