Scheherazadean
Scheherazadean adjective: of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade.
Adjective
Scheherazadean (comparative more Scheherazadean, superlative most Scheherazadean)
- Of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade.
- Instead of following the Scheherazadean strategy of delaying death, such suicidal narratives are a means of hastening the narrator's end.1994, Robert Scott Leventhal, Reading After Foucault
- Ray makes her determination all the more sensuously Scheherazadean when she calls for her servant Hiria and demands that the old woman come and tell her a story.2000, Darius Cooper, Dudley Andrew, William Rothman, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity
Forms of Scheherazadean
| comparative | more Scheherazadean |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Scheherazadean |
| alternative form | Scheherazadian |
Origin of Scheherazadean
From Scheherazade + -ean.
Questions about Scheherazadean
- What does Scheherazadean mean?
- Scheherazadean means of or relating to the fictional storyteller Scheherazade.
- What part of speech is Scheherazadean?
- Scheherazadean is an adjective.
Words near Scheherazadean in the dictionary
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