Usually means: Beauty that launched a thousand ships.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Helen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Helen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Helen: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Helen: Vocabulary.com
  5. Helen, helen: Wordnik
  6. Helen: Wiktionary
  7. Helen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Helen: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. helen: Dictionary.com
  10. Helen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Helen (American Horror Story), Helen (actress), Helen (disambiguation), Helen (film), Helen (given name), Helen (novel), Helen (play), Helen (unit), Helen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Helen: Rhymezone
  13. HELEN: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  14. Helen: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. helen: FreeDictionary.org
  16. helen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Helen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Helen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. Helen: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Helen: Global Glossary
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Helen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Helen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Helen: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. HELEN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. helen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Helen: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. helen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Helen)

▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) The daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.
▸ noun:  A female given name from Ancient Greek.
▸ noun:  A place in the United States:
▸ noun:  A minor city in White County, Georgia.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
▸ noun:  Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.

Similar:
Helen of Troy, Anne, Laura, Margaret, Sarah, Jennie, Helene, Katie, Rebecca, Cheryl, more...

Opposite:
ugly, unattractive, plain, displeasing, homely

Phrases:
Helen Keller, Helen Hunt, Helen Hayes, helen gardner, Helen Thomas, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, fair, dear, beautiful, old, real, lovely, young, haired, second


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Similar:
Helen of Troy, Anne, Laura, Margaret, Sarah, Jennie, Helene, Katie, Rebecca, Cheryl, more...

Opposite:
ugly, unattractive, plain, displeasing, homely

Phrases:
Helen Keller, Helen Hunt, Helen Hayes, helen gardner, Helen Thomas, Helen Frankenthaler, Helen Wills, Helen Suzman, helen burns, Helen Clark, Helen Mirren, helen brown, helen taft, helen traubel, Helen Merrill, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, fair, dear, beautiful, old, real, lovely, young, haired, second



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