HELEN


Meaning of HELEN in English

/hel"euhn/ , n.

1. Also called Helen of Troy . Class. Myth. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.

2. a female given name.

[ Hélène Helena Heléne, of obscure orig., prob. the name of a pre-Greek vegetation goddess; often linked by folk etym. with heléne, heláne torch, St. Elmo's fire, an unrelated word ]

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