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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Dido n : (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of he suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas [syn: {Dido}]
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