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What does Dido mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Dido? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) Founder and first Queen of Carthage.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The name of a queen of Carthage.
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I first encountered Raymond Leppard as the brilliant harpsichordist in Barbirolli's recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
Whilst neas and Achates were still gazing, Queen Dido drew near with a great retinue of maidens and youths.
Evolving in a definitely trance style, it still leaves a large place to the voice of Dido.
After one too many chill-out compilations featuring remixes of Dido songs, downtempo seemed destined to die a quick death.
The subject of the threnody is a nymph of the name of Dido, whose identity can only be vaguely conjectured.
In that dwelling of Pluto we also find the queen Dido who killed herself because of passion after swearing fidelity to the ashes of Ciqueo.

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