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Thalestris

Thalestris proper noun: the queen of the Amazons, said to have brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.

Proper noun

Thalestris

  1. (Greek) The queen of the Amazons, said to have brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.
    • Victory must now have fallen to the side of the travellers (for the bravest troops must yield to numbers) had not Susan the chambermaid come luckily to support her mistress. This Susan was as two-handed a wench (according to the phrase) as any in the country, and would, I believe, have beat the...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

Origin of Thalestris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θάληστρις (Thálēstris).

Questions about Thalestris

What does Thalestris mean?
Thalestris means the queen of the Amazons, said to have brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.
What part of speech is Thalestris?
Thalestris is a proper noun.

Words near Thalestris in the dictionary

  1. thalers
  2. Thales
  3. Thales's theorem
  4. Thalesian
  5. Thalesianism
  6. Thalestris
  7. thalfenisite
  8. thalfinine
  9. Thalgarrah
  10. thali
  11. thalia

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