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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The wife of King Arthur and lover of Lancelot according to Arthurian legend.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A female given name of Welsh origin.
  2. n. In Arthurian legend, the wife of King Arthur.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table

Etymologies

  1. From Old Welsh Gwenhwyfar; gwen ("white, fair") and wyfar ("smooth"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Dante had proper insight when he made the Inferno foggy, and Tennyson, too, in "Guinevere", when he wished to presage unutterable sadness, told how”

    Janey Canuck in the West

  • “My cat Guinevere is now officially a star, and will only grow more conceited as she achieves global exposure.”

    Mary Tyler Moore Moment

  • “By the way, "Alfred and Guinevere" is one of the great books they've done and you should definitely check it out.”

    Contempt, Boredom, and Moravia at 100

  • “[16] Mr. Churton Collins thinks that the lines in "Guinevere" --”

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

  • “Meg Jensen writes of this rediscovered gem from the 1930s, a tale of a 40-year-old governess who stumbles into a world of cocktails and evening gowns when an employment agency sends her to the wrong address: “Over the course of a day, in a series of deft interventions, brilliant repartee, and enough gin to sink a lesser woman, Guinevere is revealed not only to her newfound friends, but more importantly to herself, as a lifesaver, in more ways than one.””

    2008 November 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews

  • “An early 12th century church archivolt has an Arthurian scene, perhaps carved by a Breton, that labels Guinevere as 'Winlogee.”

    Cadafael, King of Gwynedd

  • “Although I actually like the idea of Guinevere giving him a son...so maybe not!”

    HH Com 397

  • “The word "lover" now almost always appears with a nonhuman object -- animal lover, bargain lover, seafood lover -- but surely Launcelot never called Guinevere his significant other.”

    WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

  • “MR: Can you tell us a little bit about where your stage name "Guinevere" came from?”

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

  • “In some bizarre twist, this means that Xander (i.e. the "normal" one) is going to be Guinevere aka Gwen the maid.”

    The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant

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