Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.
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- proper noun Greek mythology The daughter of King
Minos ofCrete and his queen,Pasiphae . - proper noun rare A female
given name .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth
Etymologies
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Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community.
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Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community.
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Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community.
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Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community.
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Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community.
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Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community.
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Compare that to the work that went into Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne, which is more or less average for Titian in terms of the labor it would have required.
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A similar deal in 2000 called Ariadne devoured the revenue that the [Greek] government collected from its national lottery.
Stephen Herrington: Goldman Sachs Robbed the EU By Way of Greece
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Her grandmother was a spider, who the greeks know as Ariadne or Arachne but you can call her "Ms. Tuffet" because she is beside herself.
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Talbot saw no point in mentioning that the Ariadne had never carried out a hydrographic exercise in its life and that the ship had been called Ariadne to remind the Greeks that it was a multi-national vessel and to persuade a wavering Greek government that perhaps NATO wasn't such a bad thing after all.
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