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Kyrene

Kyrene is the alternative spelling of Cyrene.

Meaning of Cyrene

Proper noun

Cyrene

  1. (Greek) A Thessalian princess and huntress demigod, companion of Artemis, lover of Apollo, and mother of Aristaeus and Idmon.
  2. (historical) A former city near Shahhat, Libya.

Origin of Kyrene

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē).

Questions about Kyrene

What is Kyrene the alternative spelling of?
Kyrene is the alternative spelling of Cyrene.

Words near Kyrene in the dictionary

  1. Kyrchiv
  2. Kyree
  3. Kyren
  4. Kyrenaean
  5. Kyrenaeans
  6. Kyrene
  7. Kyrenean
  8. Kyreneans
  9. Kyrenia
  10. Kyrenian
  11. Kyrenians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kyrene (page history and authors); Cyrene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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