electra

[US]/i'lektrə/
[UK]/ɪˈlɛktrə/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a multi-area radio navigation system used for aircraft navigation and positioning.
Word Forms
Pluralelectras

Phrases & Collocations

Orestes and Electra

Electra complex

Electra's revenge

Electra's tragic story

Example Sentences

His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet.

.. Deputy Carlos Electra Avellan ...

The ng of Mycenae and leader of the Grees n the Trojan ar, ho as the son of Atreus and the father of Orestes, Electra, and phgena.

On the spot of the young girl's "electra complex", Zhang Ai-ling has deducted an unmorality emotion between the father and his daughter in Xinjing.

Real-world Examples

Electra is the same at the end of the play as she was at the beginning.

Source: Simon Critchley - Tragedy the Greeks and Us

Electra is a play where action is sidelined by language, redemption is subtracted, and justice seems a massive irrelevance.

Source: Simon Critchley - Tragedy the Greeks and Us

Emily Townsend Vermeule, " Electra: Introduction, " in Euripides V, ed. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959), 3.

Source: Simon Critchley - Tragedy the Greeks and Us

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