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1. (n.) Penelope
the wife of Odysseus, who remained faithful to him during his long absence at Troy.
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1. (noun) Penelope
(Greek mythology) the wife of Odysseus and a symbol of devotion and fidelity; for 10 years while Odysseus fought the Trojan War she resisted numerous suitors until Odysseus returned and killed them
2. (noun) Penelope, genus Penelope
a genus of guans (turkey-like arboreal birds valued as game and food birds)
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1. (noun) penelope
a genus of curassows, including the guans
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1. penelope
the wife of Ulysses, celebrated for her conjugal fidelity during his twenty years' absence, in the later half of which an army of suitors pled for her hand, pleading that her husband would never return; but she put them all off by a promise of marriage as soon as she finished a web (called after Penelope's web) she was weaving, which she wove by day and undid at night, till their importunities took a violent form, when her husband arrived and delivered her.
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