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Cressida

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
  2. A moon of Uranus, Solar System.

Equivalents

FrançaisCressida
日本語クレシダ

Examples

“Of course, Cressida had looked up her name online. Reporting to her parents, incensed: "'Cressida'―or 'Criseyde'―isn't nice at all. She's 'faithless'―that's how people thought of her in the Middle Ages .Chaucer wrote about her, and then Shakespeare. ( - - - )" "Oh, honey, come on. We don't believe in 'fate' in the U.S. of A. in 1996―this ain't the Middle Ages."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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