Crossword clues for penelope
penelope
- Wife of Odysseus
- Cruz with a 2008 Oscar
- A genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds)
- (Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity
- For 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them
- Classical symbol of patience
- Writer to run off with long-abandoned wife
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penelope \Pe*nel"o*pe\ (p[-e]*n[e^]l"[-o]*p[=e]), n. [From. L. Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, the hero of the Odyssey, Gr. Phnelo`ph.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of curassows, including the guans.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, name of the faithful wife in the "Odyssey," from Greek Penelopeia, probably related to pene "thread on the bobbin," from penos "web," cognate with Latin pannus "cloth garment" (see pane (n.)). Used in English as the type of the virtuous wife (1580) as it was in Latin.
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Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 1.021265 sq. miles (2.645064 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.021265 sq. miles (2.645064 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56672
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.859320 N, 96.927403 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76676
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Wikipedia
Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's epic poem Odyssey.
Penelope may also refer to:
Penelope is a 2006 British-American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Mark Palansky which was first released in 2006 and stars Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, and Reese Witherspoon.
Penelope is a 1966 comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, and Dick Shawn. A novelisation of the screenplay was written by Howard Melvin Fast writing under the pseudonym "E. V. Cunningham".
Penelope is a bird genus in the Cracidae family consisting of a number of large turkey-like arboreal species, the typical guans. The range of these species is in forests from southern Mexico to tropical South America. These large birds have predominantly brown plumage and have relatively small heads in comparison with body size; they also bear a characteristic dewlap. Body lengths are typically 65 to 95 centimeters.
Most of the genus members have a typically raucous honking call. A number of the genus members are endangered species and at least one is critically endangered, usually due to tropical deforestation and hunting. In the case of several species the estimated populations are as low as a few 1000 mature birds, spread over a considerable area. Because of the scarcity of many of the genus members and also due to the habitat being often in deep or high altitude forests, little is known about some of the species habits and reproduction; in fact, some species are found at altitudes up to 3350 meters. Nests are typically built of twigs in trees.
This genus seems to have originated as part of the southward expansion of guans through the Andes and across tropical South America. Its closest relatives are probably the piping-guans, Aburria. These genera's ancestors apparently diverged some time during the Burdigalian, 20-15 mya, but this is not corroborated by fossil evidence (Pereira et al. 2002).
In Greek mythology Penelope or Penelopeia is a dryad, the daughter of Dryops. She resides on mount Kyllene in Arcadia and is the mother of the god Pan or of Nomios by Hermes.
This particular Penelope is sometimes confused with her namesake, Penelope, the wife and queen of Odysseus, in stories in which she is said to be the mother of Pan.
Penelope is a single released by indie rock band Pinback, on their album, Blue Screen Life. It is regarded as one of their most well-known songs. The two B-sides, "Anti-Hu" and "Seville" (Demo) can be found on Nautical Antiques.
The song was inspired by Armistead Burwell Smith IV's fish named Penelope, as can be seen on his Twitter page.
The song has been covered by several bands including Saosin and PlayRadioPlay!
Pénélope is the title of two operas:
- Pénélope, by French composer Gabriel Fauré, first performed in 1913
- Pénélope (Piccinni), a French-language opera by Italian composer Niccolò Piccinni, first performed in 1785
Penelope is a 2010 tragicomedy play written by Irish playwright Enda Walsh. The play concerns the attempts of four men seeking to win over Penelope in the absence of her warrior husband, Odysseus, who has been away for the previous twenty years fighting the Trojan wars.
Penelope is the fourth largest impact crater on Tethys, which is one of Saturn's moons. It is 208 kilometers wide, and is located near the equator in the center of trailing hemisphere of the moon at 10.8°S, 249.2°W. It is approximately opposite to the largest crater on Tethys— Odysseus.
Penelope crater is named after the faithful wife of Odysseus by Homer.
Penelope, derived from the name of Homer's character, is a female first name. It may refer to:
People:
- Penelope, Lady Aitken (1910-2005), English socialite
- Penélope Cruz (born 1974), Spanish actress
- Penelope Delta (1874–1941), Greek author
- Penelope Dudley-Ward (1914-1982), English actress and mistress of the future King Edward VIII
- Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer
- Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and film critic
- Penelope Heyns (born 1974), South African swimmer and double gold medalist at the 1996 Olympic Games
- Penelope Houston (born 1958), American singer-songwriter
- Penelope Keith (born 1940), English actress famous for TV sitcoms
- Penelope Lively (born 1933), British fiction writer
- Penelope Ann Miller (born 1964), American actress
- Penelope Mortimer (1918-1999), British journalist, biographer and novelist
- Penelope Rich, Lady Rich (1562–1607), English noblewoman
- Penelope Spheeris (born 1945), American director, producer and screenwriter
- Penelope Stout (17th century), early white settler of Monmouth County, New Jersey
- Penelope Tree (born 1950), Anglo-American former fashion model prominent in swinging sixties London
- Penelope Wensley (born 1946), Governor of Queensland, Australia
- Penelope Wilton (born 1946), English actress
Fictional or mythological characters:
- Penelope In Homer's Odyssey, the faithful wife of Odysseus
- Penelope (dryad), mother of the god Pan in Greek mythology
- Penelope Clearwater, in the Harry Potter novels
- Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, a puppet character from the 1960s television program Thunderbirds
- Penelope Garcia, on the television drama Criminal Minds
- Penelope Lang, an antagonist in the cartoon show Atomic Betty
- Penelope Pitstop, a Hanna Barbera cartoon character
- Penelope Pussycat, from Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes
- Penelope Lannier, a character portrayed by Jane Birkin in La Piscine
- Penelope Shafai, in the Gossip Girl TV series
- Penelope Taynt, on The Amanda Show
- Penelope Wilhern, a character portrayed by Christina Ricci in Penelope (2006 film)
- Penelope "Penny" Widmore, a recurring character on the television show Lost
- Penelope, a character portrayed by Saturday Night Live cast member Kristen Wiig
- Penelope, from the anime Hamtaro
- Penelope, a dragon in the animated movie Barbie as Rapunzel
- Penelope (Sly Cooper), from the video games Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves and Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time
- Penelope, a character portrayed by Dakota Johnson in A Bigger Splash
Category:Feminine given names Category:English feminine given names
Penelope (1798–1824) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. She won sixteen of her twenty-four races, including two Oatlands Stakes, the Jockey-Club Plate and she beat Oaks and Derby winner Eleanor. She was bred and owned by Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. After retiring from racing she became an influential broodmare, foaling Derby winners Whalebone and Whisker and 1000 Guineas winner Whizgig.
Pénélope is a French-language opera by the composer Niccolò Piccinni, first performed at Fontainebleau on 2 November 1785 in the presence of King Louis XVI and his queen Marie-Antoinette. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-François Marmontel, is based on the story of Odysseus (Ulysses) and Penelope in Homer's Odyssey. The opera transferred to the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 6 December 1785, but it was not a success.
Penelope is a Slovak psychological drama film directed by Štefan Uher. Starring Božidara Turzonovová and Eva Kristínová, the movie was released on January 20, 1978.
Similarly as with some of previous works directed by Uher, such as Slnko v sieti (1962), he reunited with screenwriter Alfonz Bednár and cinematographer Stanislav Szomolányi.
Usage examples of "penelope".
When the stories arrived of curses laid on the Achaian kings, Penelope felt no surprise.
Here Ernie had lived with his mother and father, and down these alleys Doris and Penelope and Nancy had come on wartime winter afternoons, to call on old Mrs.
And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, a clean quality woman is suited for a player, and the punks of the bankside, a penny a time.
After dozens of phone calls, she and Penelope Briggs had managed to put together a consortium of parents, alums, local businesspeople, and miscellaneous Travelers who wanted to buy St.
He supported his argument by asserting that the writer was clearly more familiar with homelife than the sea and contending that Nausicaa used the story to frame portraits of the great Greek heroines: Calypso, Circe, and Penelope, for instance.
And when Penelope and Odysseus are about to go upstairs to their first night in twenty years, the house is sounding with the guileful music of a pretended wedding, a truly Odyssean accompaniment.
She did mention in her last letter that Lady Rhodine was coming out in the carriage most afternoons, and she was getting used to Penelope, but still had no liking for horses.
I could check in on Clytaemnestra and on Penelope, on Telemachus and Orestes.
In those days she used to sit here during the hours of sunlight and watch that balcony beneath for the tall, red-haired young man who had so strongly attracted her that she wove whole fantasies around him, pretending he was King Odysseus of Ithaca and she was his faithful Queen Penelope, waiting for him to come home.
Featherington held out hope that Penelope might still make a match, since it had taken both Prudence and Philippa five seasons to snare husbands, but Penelope knew that she was destined to remain a spinster.
It was obvious to Penelope that neither Prudence, Philippa, nor even Felicity had ever had a chance with a Bridgerton.
Ulysses, unknown to Penelope, slipped a letter into my hand for Calypso, at the island of Ogygia.
What great coarse asses' throats these Kastrians have, thought Penelope, pursing her lips.
Penelope was never more than ten yards away, acting the part of her shill, collecting her money, urging bypassers to seek her services.
She said nothing, and after a glance toward the regions where Penelope might conjecturably be lingering, he held aside the portiere for the Laphams to pass, and entered the room with them.