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ARIADNE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth
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Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)