Oedipus meaning

ĕdə-pəs, ēdə-
The son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes, who, raised by the king of Corinth, later returns to Thebes and unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother.
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Oedipus is defined as a man having the tendency to stay very close to his mother.

An example of the Oedipus behavior is a forty year old man who's never moved away from his mother and doesn't leave home without her.

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The definition of Oedipus is son in Greek mythology who was too attached and too attracted to his mother.

An example of Oedipus was the son of the king and queen of Thebes who ended up killing his father and marrying his mother.

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A son of Laius and Jocasta, who was abandoned at birth and unwittingly killed his father and then married his mother.
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Origin of oedipus

  • Latin from Greek Oidipous oidein to swell pous foot octopus

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

Oedipus Sentence Examples

  • The country was ravaged by a monster, the Sphinx; Oedipus solved the riddle which it proposed to its victims, freed the country, and married his own mother.

  • Her character and these incidents of her life presented an attractive subject to the Greek tragic poets, especially Sophocles in the Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, and Euripides, whose Antigone, though now lost, is partly known from extracts incidentally preserved in later writers, and from passages in his Phoenissae.

  • In the order of the events, at least, Sophocles departed from the original legend, according to which the burial of Polyneices took place while Oedipus was yet in Thebes, not after he had died at Colonus.

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