Partenope: Definition and part of speech

Partenope

  1. n. One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
  2. n. One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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