Cleopatra

Cle·o·pat·ra (kl

-p

, -pä

, -p

-) 69-30 b.c.

Egyptian queen (51-49 and 48-30) noted for her beauty and charisma. Octavian defeated the forces led by Cleopatra and Mark Antony at Actium (31).

cleopatra [ˌkliːəˈpætrə -ˈpɑː-]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange

Cleopatra [ˌkliːəˈpætrə -ˈpɑː-]

(Biographies / Cleopatra (?69 bc-30 bc) F, Egyptian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) ?69-30 bc, queen of Egypt (51-30), renowned for her beauty: the mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony. She killed herself with an asp to avoid capture by Octavian (Augustus)

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Cleopatra - beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)

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Cleopatra [ˌkliːəˈpætrə] N → Cleopatra

Cleopatra

n → Kleopatra f

Cleopatra [ˌkliːəˈpætrə] n → Cleopatra

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Actium Agrippa Antonius Antony Augustus Bara Cleopatra's Needle Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Gaius Octavianus Haje Heliopolis Hellenistic Marcus Antonius Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Mark Anthony Mark Antony Octavian Pergamum Ptolemaic dynasty	Quickness was ready at the call, and the two figures passed lightly along by the Meleager, towards the hall where the reclining Ariadne, then called the Cleopatra, lies in the marble voluptuousness of her beauty, the drapery folding around her with a petal-like ease and tenderness. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context They say that Cleopatra (excuse an instance from Roman history) was fond of sticking gold pins into her slave-girls' breasts and derived gratification from their screams and writhings. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context	clemency Clemens clement Clement Attlee Clement I Clement III Clement of Alexandria Clement Philibert Leo Delibes Clement Richard Attlee Clement V Clement VII Clement XI Clement XIV Clemente clementine clementine tree Clementines clench clenched clenched fist cleome Cleome hassleriana Cleome pinnata Cleome serrulata Cleon Cleopatra Cleopatra's Needle CLEP clepe Clepsine clepsydra clept cleptomania cleptophobia clerestory Clergeon Clergial Clergical clergy Clergyable clergyman clergywoman cleric clerical clerical collar clericalism clericalist clericals Clericity clerid clerid beetle	CLEO-PR CLEOA Cleobis Cleocin Cleocin Pediatric Cleocin Phosphate Cleocin T Cleofas cleoid cleome cleome Cleome hasslerana Cleome hassleriana Cleome hassleriana Cleome pinnata Cleome serrulata Cleome serrulata Cleomedes Cleomenes I Cleomenes III cleomes cleomes Cleon Cleon Cleon Collier Memorial Branch Library Cléonte Cleopas Cleopatra Cleopatra VII Cleopatra VII Cleopatra VII Cleopatra VII of Egypt Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator Cleopatra's needle Cleopatra's needle Cleopatra's Needles Cleopatra's Needles Cleopatra's pearl cleopatras cleopatras cleopatras Cleophas Cleophrades Painter CLEOS CLEP CLEP CLEPA clepe cleped clepes cleping CLEPS Clepsine clepsydra clepsydra Clepsydra (clock)

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Actium
Agrippa
Antonius
Antony
Augustus
Bara
Cleopatra's Needle
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Gaius Octavianus
Haje
Heliopolis
Hellenistic
Marcus Antonius
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Mark Anthony
Mark Antony
Octavian
Pergamum
Ptolemaic dynasty

Quickness was ready at the call, and the two figures passed lightly along by the Meleager, towards the hall where the reclining Ariadne, then called the Cleopatra, lies in the marble voluptuousness of her beauty, the drapery folding around her with a petal-like ease and tenderness.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

They say that Cleopatra (excuse an instance from Roman history) was fond of sticking gold pins into her slave-girls' breasts and derived gratification from their screams and writhings.

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

For my part, I should be sorry to think that there was nothing between Anthony and Cleopatra but an economic situation; and it will require a great deal more evidence than is ever likely to be available, thank God, to persuade me that Tiberius was as blameless a monarch as King George V.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

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