Usually means: Ancient Greek poet, symbolizes lesbianism.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sappho: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Sappho: Merriam-Webster
  3. Sappho: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Sappho: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Sappho: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sappho: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sappho: Wordnik
  8. Sappho: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Sappho: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Sappho: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Sappho: Dictionary.com
  12. Sappho (bird), Sappho (disambiguation), Sappho (film), Sappho (organisation), Sappho (play), Sappho (yacht), Sappho: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sappho: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sappho: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Sappho: Rhymezone
  16. Sappho: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sappho: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sappho: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Sappho: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Sappho: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sappho: Global Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sappho: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sappho: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sappho: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sappho: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Sappho)

▸ noun:  An Ancient Greek female name, particularly borne by a poetess from Lesbos who lived between 630 and 570 BC (exact dates unknown).
▸ noun:  (astronomy) 80 Sappho, a main belt asteroid.
▸ noun:  (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Similar:
Sapphira, sibyl, Sibylla, Appalonia, Syntyche, Penelope, Alcaeus, Persephone, phœbe, Greekess, more...

Opposite:
Homer, male poet, heterosexual poet

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fragment, fragmentary, fragmentarily, fragmentariness, more...

Phrases:
Sappho 31, Poetry of Sappho, more...

Adjectives:
greek, modern, beautiful, ancient, poor, new, celebrated, great, real, reading, sweet

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Similar:
Sapphira, sibyl, Sibylla, Appalonia, Syntyche, Penelope, Alcaeus, Persephone, phœbe, Greekess, more...

Opposite:
Homer, male poet, heterosexual poet

Types:
fragment, fragmentary, fragmentarily, fragmentariness, more...

Phrases:
Sappho 31, Poetry of Sappho, more...

Adjectives:
greek, modern, beautiful, ancient, poor, new, celebrated, great, real, reading, sweet

Colors:
    indigo,     lavender,     violet,     mauve,     lilac, more...



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