Definition of Bluebeard

1. Noun. (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience.


Definition of Bluebeard

1. n. The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.

Definition of Bluebeard

1. Proper noun. A famous fairytale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate. ¹

2. Proper noun. The nobleman who is the title character of the story. ¹

3. Noun. A man who married and then murdered one wife after another. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bluebeard

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluebeard

Blue Banana
Blue Dog
Blue Dogs
Blue Ensign
Blue Hill
Blue Jay
Blue Jays
Blue Max
Blue Mountain tea
Blue Mountains
Blue Nile
Blue Planet
Blue Riband
Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge Mountains
Bluebeard (current term)
Bluebeards
Bluebird
Bluebirds
Bluegown
Bluegowns
Blueshirt
Bluey
Blumberg's sign
Blumenau's nucleus
Blumenbach's clivus
Blumenthal

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