Usually means: Heroine in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida."
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  1. Cressida: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cressida: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cressida: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cressida: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cressida: Wordnik
  6. Cressida: Wiktionary
  7. Cressida: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Cressida: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cressida: Dictionary.com
  10. Cressida (band), Cressida (butterfly), Cressida (disambiguation), Cressida (moon), Cressida (progressive rock band), Cressida: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cressida: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  12. Cressida: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. cressida: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  14. Cressida: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Cressida (medieval romance), Cressida: Encyclopedia

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  1. Cressida: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cressida)

▸ noun:  (countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) A moon of Uranus, Solar System

Similar:
Cassandra, Clio, Cleo, Cynthia, Cris, Clarissa, Corrinne, Crispus, Crispin, Clitus, more...

Opposite:
Troilus

Phrases:
Troilus and Cressida, Cressida Bonas, Cressida Cowell, Cressida Dick, Erin Cressida Wilson, more...

Adjectives:
troilus, faithless, false, fair, beloved, white, beautiful, young, unfaithful, wanton, fickle



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Similar:
Cassandra, Clio, Cleo, Cynthia, Cris, Clarissa, Corrinne, Crispus, Crispin, Clitus, more...

Opposite:
Troilus

Phrases:
Troilus and Cressida, Cressida Bonas, Cressida Cowell, Cressida Dick, Erin Cressida Wilson, Kat Cressida, Cressida Campbell, more...

Adjectives:
troilus, faithless, false, fair, beloved, white, beautiful, young, unfaithful, wanton, fickle



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