English Explanatory Dictionary

Meliboean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. alternately responsive
adj
  1. Of or relating to the ancient town and polis of Meliboea in ancient Thessaly.
noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Meliboea.

Word forms

Meliboean Melibean Meliboeans

Etymology

From the name of a shepherd in Virgil's first eclogue.

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