Usually means: Goddess of spring, underworld queen.
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  1. persephone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Persephone, Persephone: Merriam-Webster
  3. Persephone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Persephone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Persephone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Persephone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Persephone, persephone: Wordnik
  8. Persephone: Wiktionary
  9. Persephone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Persephone: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. persephone: Dictionary.com
  12. Persephone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Persephone (The Matrix), Persephone (disambiguation), Persephone (instrument), Persephone (mythology), Persephone (painting), Persephone (planet), Persephone (sculpture), Persephone (tugboat), Persephone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Persephone: Rhymezone
  15. persephone: FreeDictionary.org
  16. persephone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Persephone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Persephone (goddess), Persephone (godess), Persephone (mythology), Persephone: Encyclopedia

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  1. Persephone: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Persephone)

noun:  (Greek mythology) A minor deity, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and vegetation. Originally named Kore/Core, she is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades. Her Roman counterpart is Proserpina.
noun:  (astronomy) 399 Persephone, a main belt asteroid.
noun:  (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.
noun:  (science fiction) The tenth planet, orbiting beyond Pluto.

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