Hecuba

[hek-yoo-buh]

noun

Classical Mythology. the wife of Priam.

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Contemporary Examples of hecuba

To be or not to be,” was a favorite phrase, as was “What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba.
Hitler's Bedtime Reading
Timothy Ryback
October 17, 2008

Historical Examples of hecuba

A nymph with bright and flowing hair; a hag like Hecuba, by Jove!
Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II)
Charles James Lever
Hecuba had been warned by a prophetic dream, and lamented her daughter's fate and her own.
Thais
Anatole France
His wife, however, Hecuba, begged and entreated him to desist.
Romulus, Makers of History
Jacob Abbott
We did not see this latter-day Hecuba, but we were told that she was still quite comely.
The American Egypt
Channing Arnold
Paris was the son of Priam, king of Troy, and his wife Hecuba.
English Narrative Poems
Various

British Dictionary definitions for hecuba

Hecuba

noun

classical myth the wife of King Priam of Troy, and mother of Hector and Paris

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Word Origin and History for hecuba

Hecuba

principal wife of Priam in the "Iliad," from Greek Hekabe, perhaps a variant of Hecate.