Dido : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Dido	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Dido
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Dido n (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dido \Di"do\, n.; pl. {Didos}. A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. {To cut a dido}, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.