Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɨˈnɛləpi/
- (Greek mythology) The faithful wife of Odysseus.
- ~1608 William Shakespeare: Coriolanus: Act I, Scene III:
- You would be another Penelope; yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.
- ~1608 William Shakespeare: Coriolanus: Act I, Scene III:
- A female given name.
- 1967 Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins (2014), ISBN 978-0-00-759135-0, page 194:
- "She's a sort of pretend auntie - an old friend of Mummy's. Her real name's Miss Penelope Gill but we always call her Gillie."
- "Don't you ever let her hear you calling her Penelope!" said Mrs Lindsay, laughing. "She hates the name, though really I can't see why. I suppose it wasn't so fashionable when she was young."
- 2004 Alice Munro, Runaway:Stories, Knopf (2004), page 93:
- "What's her name?" He meant the baby's. "Penelope. We're never going to call her Penny. Penelope." - - - ""Oh. Well, it's Penelope Henderson - Porteous I guess. Or Porteous - Henderson. But maybe that's too much of a mouthful, when she's already called Penelope? We knew that we wanted Penelope. We'll have to settle it somehow."
- 1967 Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins (2014), ISBN 978-0-00-759135-0, page 194:
- A town in Texas.
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