Dido is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like princess. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dido meaning
- A fuss, a row.
- A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
Synonyms of Dido
Using Dido
- The main meaning on this page is: A fuss, a row. | A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
- Useful related words include: princess.
- In the example corpus, dido often appears in combinations such as: dido and, and dido, that dido.
Context around Dido
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dido
- In this selection, "dido" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, return, perform, dowsley, harding, presumably and takes stand out and add context to how "dido" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aeneas and dido and aeneas and dido presumably have. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dido" sits close to words such as acolytes, acv and afolabi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dido
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One was their great-niece, Dido Belle, born in 1761. (10 words)
Anna Dowsley (Dido) and Sebastian Maclaine (Aeneas) sing the title roles. (11 words)
Nicole DuPort, left, and Alana Dietze in “Dido of Idaho” at Echo Theater Company. (14 words)
Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno 's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings. (40 words)
Aeneas is inclined to return Dido's love, and during a hunting expedition, a storm drives them into a cave in which Aeneas and Dido presumably have sex, an event that Dido takes to indicate a marriage between them. (39 words)
Aeneas descended into the underworld where he met Dido (who turned away from him to return to her husband) and his father, who showed him the future of his descendants and thus the history of Rome. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Aeneas is inclined to return Dido's love, and during a hunting expedition, a storm drives them into a cave in which Aeneas and Dido presumably have sex, an event that Dido takes to indicate a marriage between them.
A whole host of celebrities were born on Christmas Day – scientist Sir Isaac Newton, singers Annie Lennox and Dido, commentator Chris Kamara, Norwegian model Helena Christensen and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Dido played Eminem's romantic lead in the music video, which was heavily censored to create a 'clean' version that could be shown on TV.
Soprano Talia Papageorge will perform Dido’s Lament by Purcell, and the orchestra will also perform Bach’s famous Air from the Suite in D and Lord of the Dance.
Anna Dowsley (Dido) and Sebastian Maclaine (Aeneas) sing the title roles.
Eminem and Dido’s collaboration follows an obsessive fan who ultimately kills himself and his girlfriend after several letters go ignored by Slim Shady.
Nicole DuPort, left, and Alana Dietze in “Dido of Idaho” at Echo Theater Company.
Since Dido was the one who founded Carthage, and she did this after already having been married, this would make her an elderly woman by the time Aeneas fled the ruins of his city.
Dido Harding, head of NHS Test and Trace said that having a more localised approach will ensure more contacts of coronavirus cases within communities can be reached.
Dido Harding said that they need to make test and trace fully operational by winter.
One was their great-niece, Dido Belle, born in 1761.
Due to illness, 'Dido Live In Concert' at Coca-Cola Arena scheduled for Friday has been cancelled, according to a statement issued by the promoters.
The Goethe Institute in Athens presents screenings of the choreographic opera “Dido & Aeneas,” with choreography by Sasha Waltz, recorded at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin in 2005.
The President, SDA, West Central Africa Division, Pastor Elie Weick-Dido, said the summit was to address the church’s needs in the last days.
Aeneas descended into the underworld where he met Dido (who turned away from him to return to her husband) and his father, who showed him the future of his descendants and thus the history of Rome.
Aeneas falls in love with Dido, delaying his ultimate fate of traveling to Italy.
Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido (also known as Elissa), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign jointly over their peoples.
Aeneas tells Dido about the fall of Troy, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno 's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.
A marriage of sorts was arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans' descendants.
A seventeenth century popular broadside ballad also appears to recount events from books 1-4 of the Aeneid, focusing mostly on the relationship between Aeneas and Dido.
Common combinations with dido
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: