Merope

[mer-uh-pee]

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a queen of Corinth and the foster mother of Oedipus.

2. a queen of Messenia, the wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus, who with Aepytus sought revenge upon Polyphontes, the brother and murderer of Cresphontes.

3. one of the six visible stars in the Pleiades.

Example Sentences

Martha's mother, Merope Mills, welcomed the expansion on what would have been her daughter's 18th birthday but wants UK-wide access.

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Merope Mills said she was delighted more people were going to get access to the rule.

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he was grateful to NHS staff who have embraced the campaign and "most of all to Merope and Paul and the Mills family for their campaigning efforts".

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Her parents, Merope Mills and Paul Laity, wrote about their pain and anger over their daughter's treatment following her death.

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"It was a difficult, tricky injury, but it did not have to be a fatal one," Merope has said.

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