DESDEMONA meaning: Fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello

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Desdemona: Merriam-Webster
Desdemona: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Desdemona: Wordnik
Desdemona: Wiktionary
Desdemona: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
Desdemona: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Desdemona: Infoplease Dictionary
Desdemona: Dictionary.com
Desdemona (John's Children song), Desdemona (Marc Bolan song), Desdemona (Othello), Desdemona (character), Desdemona (disambiguation), Desdemona (moon), Desdemona (play), Desdemona: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Desdemona: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
Desdemona: TheFreeDictionary.com
Desdemona: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
desdemona: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Desdemona: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Desdemona)

▸ noun:  Othello's wife in Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, noted for being a victim of jealousy.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) An inner moon of the planet Uranus.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) 666 Desdemona, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1908.

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Othello, antagonist, foe, enemy

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what othello calls desdemona, more...

Adjectives:

gentle, poor, fair, innocent, divine, virtuous, dead, sweet, beautiful, white, young

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