Melpomene Definition

mĕl-pŏmə-nē
noun
The Muse of tragedy.
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Origin of Melpomene

  • Greek Melpomenē from feminine present middle participle of melpein to sing

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Melpomene Sentence Examples

  • Wilfred Tomkinson (" Phoebe," North Star," Trident," Mansfield," Whirlwind," Myngs," Velox," Morris Moorsom Melpomene, "Tempest" and "Tetrarch" to escort the force and cover it to seaward; "Termagant," "Truculent" and "Manly" to screen the Zeebrugge monitors).

  • He is the chief tragic poet of the revolutionary period, and as Camille Desmoulins expressed it, he decorated Melpomene with the tricolour cockade.

  • Melpomene was founded in 1982 by Judy Mahle Lutter.

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