Usually means: Tragic Greek hero, mother's husband.
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  1. oedipus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Oedipus, Oedipus: Merriam-Webster
  3. Oedipus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Oedipus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Oedipus: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Oedipus: Vocabulary.com
  7. OEdipus, Oedipus, oedipus: Wordnik
  8. Oedipus: Wiktionary
  9. Oedipus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Oedipus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Oedipus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Oedipus: Dictionary.com
  13. Oedipus (DJ), Oedipus (Dryden), Oedipus (Dryden play), Oedipus (Euripides), Oedipus (Seneca), Oedipus (Voltaire), Oedipus (Voltaire play), Oedipus (band), Oedipus (disambiguation), Oedipus (horse), Oedipus (play by John Dryden), Oedipus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Oedipus: Rhymezone
  15. oedipus: FreeDictionary.org
  16. oedipus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Oedipus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Oedipus: Global Glossary

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  1. Oedipus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oedipus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oedipus: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Oedipus)

noun:  (Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.

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