Penelope
WordNet
noun
(1) A genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds)
(2) (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
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Etymology
From , possibly from , “duck”.
Proper noun
- The faithful wife of Odysseus.
- of mainly British usage.
Quotations
- ~1608 William Shakespeare: Coriolanus: Act I, Scene III:
- You would be another Penelope; yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.