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Arethuse

Arethuse is the alternative form of Arethusa.

Meaning of Arethusa

Proper noun

Arethusa

  1. (Greek) A nereid nymph, who became a fountain.
    • Arethusa arose / From her couch of snows / In the Acroceraunian mountains,——1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Arethusa”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published...
  2. (Greek) One of the Hesperides nymphs.
  3. 95 Arethusa, a main belt asteroid.

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Questions about Arethuse

What is Arethuse the alternative form of?
Arethuse is the alternative form of Arethusa.

Words near Arethuse in the dictionary

  1. aretegenic
  2. areteology
  3. aretes
  4. arethusa
  5. arethusas
  6. Arethuse
  7. Aretine
  8. Aretines
  9. Aretinian
  10. aretocracy
  11. aretological

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