Guinevere

American  

[gwin-uh-veer] / ˈgwɪn əˌvɪər /

noun

1. Arthurian Legend. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.

2. a female given name.

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Guinevere British  

/ ˈɡwɪnɪˌvɪə, ˈɡwɛnɪˌvɪə, ˈɡwɪnɪvə /

noun

1. (in Arthurian legend) the wife of King Arthur and paramour of Lancelot

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Guinevere Cultural  

1. The wife of King Arthur (see also King Arthur). In some versions of the legends of Arthur, she has a love affair with Sir Lancelot that leads to the end of the reign of Arthur and the fellowship of the Round Table.

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Example Sentences

Guinevere had just done "Go Fish" and I’d just done "I Shot Andy Warhol" and I felt like together we would be very strong, because how could anyone tell us what is misogynist?

From Salon

It helped that actual queer women were behind the show, including Ilene Chaiken, the show’s creator, and the writers Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps the most well-known — the Silent Book Club — dates to 2012, when two friends in San Francisco, Laura Gluhanich and Guinevere de La Mare, met at a local bar and started reading.

From Los Angeles Times

In the 1970s, dressed in stylish, flowing gowns, caftans, robes and headscarves, she all but resembled Guinevere.

From Los Angeles Times

They ranged from the misty-eyed romanticism of “Guinevere,” to the spirituality of “Deja Vu,” to the operatic paranoia of “Almost Cut My Hair.”

From Seattle Times