Merope

The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.

Proper noun

  1. The youngest of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and a consort of Hermes.
  2. A queen of Messenia and daughter of Cypselus, king of Arcadia.
  3. The least bright star in the cluster in Taurus known as the Pleiades.
  4. A female given name.
  5. A subregion of Thrace in modern Northern Greece and southern Bulgaria, in the 14th-century Balkans.

Origin

From Ancient Greek Μερόπη (Merópē).