Helen Definition

hĕlən
noun
A feminine name: dim. Nell, Nellie, Nelly; var. Eleanor, Ellen, Helena; equiv. Fr. Elaine, Hélène, It. & Sp. Elena.
Webster's New World
The daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Her abduction by Paris caused the Trojan War.
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pronoun

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.

Wiktionary
A female given name.
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Other Word Forms of Helen

Noun

Singular:
Helen
Plural:
helens

Origin of Helen

  • From French Hélène, from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helenē).

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek Helenē wel-2 in Indo-European roots

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

Helen Sentence Examples

  • The church of St Helen is a fine Perpendicular building, restored and enlarged (1880); it contains monuments of the Huntingdon family, and an old finger-pillory for the punishment of misbehaviour in church.

  • Certain persons and events in the story have a distinctly mythical stamp. Helen is a figure of this kind.

  • The youngest, Helen, was for some years vice-principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.

  • While engaged on this task he died, worn out with disease, on the 3rd of March 1703 in London, and was buried in St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate Street.

  • Attica being one of the chief seats of the worship of Artemis, this explains why Iphigeneia is sometimes called a daughter of Theseus and Helen, and thereby connected with the national hero.

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