Danaides

American  

[duh-ney-i-deez] / dəˈneɪ ɪˌdiz /

Also Danaidae

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. the 50 daughters of Danaus, 49 of whom were condemned to pour water forever into a leaky vessel for having murdered their husbands.

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Danaides British  

/ dəˈneɪɪˌdiːz /

plural noun

1. the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom

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Other Word Forms

• Danaidean
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Danaides

How much we have to suffer in our youth from men who think they are inviting us to a delightful pleasure-party, when they undertake to introduce us to the Danaides or Sisyphus!

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of practical medicine had been like the story of the Danaides.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The fifty daughters of Danaus, known as "the Danaides," were punished in Hades for their crime by being compelled everlastingly to pour water into a sieve.

From The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes Anglo-Israelism Examined by David Baron

It needed not only the energy of an American, but the tongue of a Dane and the perserverance of Danaides.

From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

And Aristophanes speaks of it in his Danaides, saying— Mention the cyllastis and the petosiris.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us