Electra

American  

[ih-lek-truh] / ɪˈlɛk trə /

noun

1. Classical Mythology. Also Elektra the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who incited her brother Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

2. Astronomy. one of the six visible stars in the Pleiades.

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Electra British  

/ ɪˈlɛktrə /

noun

1. Greek myth the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She persuaded her brother Orestes to avenge their father by killing his murderess Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus

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Electra Cultural  

1. In classical mythology, a daughter of Agamemnon. To avenge his death, she helped her brother, Orestes, kill their mother and her lover.

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The “Electra complex” in psychology involves a girl's or woman's unconscious sexual feelings for her father.

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Earhart had already successfully flown from California across South America, Africa and Asia in her Electra twin-engine plane when she arrived in Lae, Papua New Guinea, on 2 July 1937.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Earhart had already successfully flown from California across South America, Africa and Asia in her Electra twin-engine plane when she arrived in Lae, Papua New Guinea on 2 July 1937.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The Buick Electra E7 is set to be SAIC-GM’s first premium new-energy vehicle model to go overseas in October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The wreck of the Electra sits on the Pacific’s floor, Shapiro asserts, at a level deeper than the ruins of the Titanic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

Electra, with no idea that they were actually arriving, was yet on the watch.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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