Usually means: Fabled slave who befriended lion.
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  3. Androcles: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Androcles: Wiktionary
  7. Androcles: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. Androcles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  12. Androcles: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Androcles)

▸ noun:  The main character of a common folktale that is included in the Aarne–Thompson classification system as type 156.

Similar:
Androclus, Acoetes, Ananse, Aesop, Alectryon, everyman, Acteon, Actaeon, archetype, ogre, more...

Opposite:
lion, enemy, antagonist

Phrases:
androcles and the lion, more...

Adjectives:
tight, round, musical, certain, inconspicuous

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Similar:
Androclus, Acoetes, Ananse, Aesop, Alectryon, everyman, Acteon, Actaeon, archetype, ogre, more...

Opposite:
lion, enemy, antagonist

Phrases:
androcles and the lion, more...

Adjectives:
tight, round, musical, certain, inconspicuous



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