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Cleopatra

[ klee-uh-pa-truh, -pah-, -pey- ]

noun

  1. 69–30 b.c., queen of Egypt 51–49, 48–30.
  2. a female given name: from Greek words meaning “fame” and “father.”


Cleopatra

1

/ -ˈpɑː-; ˌkliːəˈpætrə /

noun

  1. Cleopatra?69 bc30 bcFEgyptianPOLITICS: hereditary ruler ?69–30 bc , queen of Egypt (51–30), renowned for her beauty: the mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony. She killed herself with an asp to avoid capture by Octavian (Augustus)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


cleopatra

2

/ -ˈpɑː-; ˌkliːəˈpætrə /

noun

  1. a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cleopatra

  1. A queen of Egypt (see also Egypt ) in the first century b.c. , famous for her beauty, charm, and luxurious living. She lived for some time in Rome with Julius Caesar . For several years after Caesar was assassinated, she lived in Egypt with the Roman politician Mark Antony . Antony killed himself on hearing a false report that she was dead. After Antony's death, Cleopatra committed suicide by allowing an asp, a poisonous snake, to bite her.


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Notes

The play Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare , dramatizes Cleopatra's affair with Antony and her suicide.
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Example Sentences

With a blink of her Cleopatra eyes, she sends Almodóvar’s Morse Code message of love out into the world.

From Time

Cleopatra’s heritage has been the subject of much academic debate, which has often been historically ignored by Hollywood.

Season 1 will cover Cleopatra — one of history's most powerful yet misunderstood women.

Their equally ambitious little sister, Arsinoe, teamed up with Ptolemy and together they waged war against Cleopatra, who was unseated.

From Ozy

Contrary to most of her pop culture mentions, Cleopatra was much more than the sum of her infamous affairs.

From Ozy

Remember the fiasco of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra?

Schiff, for instance, conjures a scene with the young Cleopatra “scampering down the colonnaded walkways of the palace.”

This document was unknown in 1985 when the last page was closed on my seventh Cleopatra.

Mark Antony supposedly gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and King Richard the Lionheart wed Queen Joanna there in 1191.

Later at the Pendleton home, the mother, Cleopatra Crowley-Pendleton, spoke of a daughter who loved reading and writing and Latin.

Cleopatra's coffin, head of the Theban ram, and other Egyptian curiosities, arrived in England.

They look like two needles, and certainly are more deserving of the name than that of Cleopatra at Alexandria.

So might Cleopatra have said when she tried the effect of poisons on her slaves before making her own choice.

Antony and Cleopatra had been captured and brought into the dining-room, where they were to spend the winter in a glass bowl.

And in "Antony and Cleopatra" we make the acquaintance of several exemplary common soldiers.

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