Associations to the word «Niobe»
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Wiktionary
NIOBE, proper noun. (Greek Mythology) A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
NIOBE, proper noun. (astronomy) Short for 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
NIOBE, proper noun. A female given name
NIOBE, noun. A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. [from 16th c.]
Dictionary definition
NIOBE, noun. (Greek mythology) the daughter of Tantalus whose boasting about her children provoked Apollo and Artemis to slay them all; Niobe was turned to stone while bewailing her loss.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.