Get to know Scheherazade better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning.
Scheherazade in a sentence
Scheherazade meaning
- A female given name from Persian.
- A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.
Using Scheherazade
- The main meaning on this page is: A female given name from Persian. | A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.
Context around Scheherazade
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scheherazade
- In this selection, "scheherazade" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shirazad, shirazd, tale, conjuring, 1845 and narrates stand out and add context to how "scheherazade" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include another tale scheherazade narrates the and asks shirazad scheherazade to tell. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scheherazade" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scheherazade
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He mentions the characters Shirazd (Scheherazade) and Dinazad. (8 words)
Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845). (12 words)
On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. (19 words)
Discovered by scholar Nabia Abbott in 1948, it bears the title Kitab Hadith Alf Layla ("The Book of the Tale of the Thousand Nights") and the first few lines of the book in which Dinazad asks Shirazad (Scheherazade) to tell her stories. (42 words)
Many of Scheherazade's tales are also frame stories, such as the Tale of Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman being a collection of adventures related by Sindbad the Seaman to Sindbad the Landsman. (35 words)
Sometimes a character in Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture. (34 words)
Example sentences (8)
The orchestra is then on full virtuosic display, featuring the enchanting music of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, conjuring up images of the sea, a storm, and a young Persian prince and princess.
Discovered by scholar Nabia Abbott in 1948, it bears the title Kitab Hadith Alf Layla ("The Book of the Tale of the Thousand Nights") and the first few lines of the book in which Dinazad asks Shirazad (Scheherazade) to tell her stories.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade" (1845).
He mentions the characters Shirazd (Scheherazade) and Dinazad.
In yet another tale Scheherazade narrates, " The Fisherman and the Jinni ", the "Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban " is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated.
Many of Scheherazade's tales are also frame stories, such as the Tale of Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman being a collection of adventures related by Sindbad the Seaman to Sindbad the Landsman.
On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it.
Sometimes a character in Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.