Get to know Merope better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Merope in a sentence
Merope meaning
- The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.
- A queen of Messenia and daughter of Cypselus, king of Arcadia.
- The least bright star in the cluster in Taurus known as the Pleiades.
Using Merope
- The main meaning on this page is: The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes. | A queen of Messenia and daughter of Cypselus, king of Arcadia. | The least bright star in the cluster in Taurus known as the Pleiades.
- In the example corpus, merope often appears in combinations such as: merope gaunt, merope had.
Context around Merope
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Merope
- In this selection, "merope" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, once, witch, young, gaunt, says and targets stand out and add context to how "merope" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include but merope says some and dumbledore once merope was alone. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "merope" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with merope
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Within three months of the marriage, Merope became pregnant. (9 words)
Merope Gaunt main was the daughter of Marvolo, sister of Morfin. (11 words)
The Taygeta and Merope targets cover an area of 546 and 1,134 hectares respectively. (15 words)
It is implied that Merope had grown tired of living the lie and thought that her husband might have grown to love her, or that he might have stayed for the sake of their unborn child; however, he left her. (40 words)
But Merope says some experts have advised her that this is the point her daughter should have been moved to intensive care - as the bleeding was probably a sign of very disordered clotting and severe sepsis taking hold. (38 words)
Rowling revealed in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that young Merope Gaunt made efforts to get as close to Tom as she could, peering at him through the windows and bushes at every opportunity. (36 words)
Example sentences (11)
But Merope says some experts have advised her that this is the point her daughter should have been moved to intensive care - as the bleeding was probably a sign of very disordered clotting and severe sepsis taking hold.
The Taygeta and Merope targets cover an area of 546 and 1,134 hectares respectively.
Since Merope had Voldemort with a Muggle, he himself was not a pure-blood, but his family were and no doubt he valued this enough to consider the ring worthy of being a Horcrux.
As surmised by Dumbledore, once Merope was alone and no longer dominated by her father, she could make her move for Tom Riddle.
In a series of flashbacks, using the pensieve as a plot device, she reveals that Voldemort is the son of the witch Merope Gaunt and a muggle called Tom Riddle.
It is implied that Merope had grown tired of living the lie and thought that her husband might have grown to love her, or that he might have stayed for the sake of their unborn child; however, he left her.
Merope decided to stop giving Tom the love potion; she believed either that he had fallen in love with her on his own or he would at least stay for their unborn child.
Merope Gaunt main was the daughter of Marvolo, sister of Morfin.
Rowling revealed in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that young Merope Gaunt made efforts to get as close to Tom as she could, peering at him through the windows and bushes at every opportunity.
She was wrong, and Tom quickly left his pregnant wife and went home to his parents, claiming to have been "hoodwinked" and tricked into marrying Merope.
Within three months of the marriage, Merope became pregnant.
Common combinations with merope
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: