helen

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helen of troy

Truva helen

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Grek

(Hukuk) Eski yunan, yunan asıllı

Eski Yunanlı, Grek

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Definition of helen in English English dictionary

Helen of Troy, a famous beauty in classical Greek legend

A female given name

given name, female

{i} female first name; Helen of Troy, beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris which caused the Trojan War (Greek Mythology)

In Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in Greece, who was the indirect cause of the Trojan War. She was a daughter of Zeus, either by Leda or by Nemesis. Her brothers were the Dioscuri, and her sister was Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon. Helen was the wife of Menelaus. When Paris, son of Priam, was asked to decide which goddess was the most beautiful, he chose Aphrodite, who rewarded him with the most beautiful woman in the world. Seducing Helen with the goddess's help, Paris carried her off to Troy, and the Greeks sent a military force to pursue them. At the war's end, with Paris dead, Helen returned to Sparta with Menelaus. Clark Helen Frankenthaler Helen Hayes Brown Helen Jacobs Helen Hull Keller Helen Adams Levitt Helen Lynd Robert Staughton and Lynd Helen Helen Merrell Helen Porter Mitchell Potter Helen Beatrix Helen Louise Leonard Suzman Helen Helen Gavronsky Tamiris Helen Helen Becker Taussig Helen Brooke Thomas Helen Wills Helen Newington Helen Newington Wills Moody Roark Helen Wills Moody Saint Helens Mount

(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War

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Helen Adams Keller

born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Ala., U.S. died June 1, 1968, Westport, Conn. U.S. author and educator who was blind and deaf. Deprived by illness of sight and hearing at the age of 19 months, Keller soon became mute as well. Five years later she began to be instructed by Anne Sullivan (1866-1936), who taught her the names of objects by pressing the manual alphabet into her palm. Eventually Keller learned to read and write in Braille. She wrote several books, including The Story of My Life (1902). Her childhood was dramatized in William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker (1959; film, 1962)

Helen Beatrix Potter

born July 28, 1866, South Kensington, Middlesex, Eng. died Dec. 22, 1943, Sawrey, Lancashire English author and illustrator of children's books. In her childhood Potter spent holidays in Scotland and the English Lake District, which inspired her love of animals and stimulated her imaginative and technically superb watercolour drawings. The illustrated animal stories she sent to a sick child when she was 27 were published as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), which became one of the best-selling children's books of all time. More than 20 sequels followed, featuring such original characters as Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

Helen Brooke Taussig

born May 24, 1898, Cambridge, Mass., U.S. died May 20, 1986, Kennett Square, Pa. U.S. physician. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins in 1927. As head of a Baltimore heart clinic (1930-63), she studied "blue babies" (babies whose heart malformations cause low blood oxygen content) and pioneered use of fluoroscopy and X rays to pinpoint the defect responsible for each set of symptoms. The surgical treatment she devised with Alfred Blalock saved thousands of such infants, and her research spurred development of other surgical treatments for heart disorders. Her Congenital Malformations of the Heart (2 vol., 1947) comprehensively described heart defects and diagnostic tools, techniques, and findings. She also played a key role in alerting U.S. physicians to the dangers of thalidomide

Helen Clark

born Feb. 26, 1950, Hamilton, N.Z. New Zealand prime minister. In 1999 she became the first woman in New Zealand to hold the office of prime minister immediately following an election. She received bachelor's (1971) and master's (1974) degrees in political science at the University of Auckland, where she taught from 1973 to 1981. Elected to Parliament in 1981, she held various cabinet portfolios beginning in 1987. She served as deputy prime minister in 1989-90 and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1990, both firsts for a woman in New Zealand. In 1993 she was elected head of the Labour Party, becoming the first woman in New Zealand to head a major party. In 1999, when the Labour Party was able to form a governing coalition, Clark was elected prime minister

Helen Folasade Adu

{i} Sade Adu (born 1959) famous English singer born in Nigeria

Helen Frankenthaler

born Dec. 12, 1928, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. painter. She studied with Rufino Tamayo in high school and at Bennington College, then returned to her native New York City and joined the "second generation" of Abstract Expressionists. Influenced by Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, she developed a style featuring abstract colour combinations within large expanses of bare canvas. She perfected the technique of colour staining, producing diaphanous colour by thinning the oils and letting them soak into the unprimed canvas. In the 1960s she began to use acrylic paints. Though abstract, many of her paintings (e.g., Ocean Desert, 1975) evoke landscapes and are noted for their lyricism. Her work influenced the colour-field painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. She was married to Robert Motherwell from 1958 to 1971

Helen Hayes

born Oct. 10, 1900, Washington, D.C., U.S. died March 17, 1993, Nyack, N.Y. U.S. actress. She began her stage career at age five and made her Broadway debut at nine. She went on to an illustrious career, starring in Broadway productions such as Caesar and Cleopatra (1925), What Every Woman Knows (1926), and The Animal Kingdom (1932) and became known as "the First Lady of the American Theatre." Her small physical size belied a majestic stage presence that made her memorable in Mary of Scotland (1933-34) and Victoria Regina (1935-39). She starred in revivals of The Skin of Our Teeth (1955), The Glass Menagerie (1956), and Long Day's Journey into Night (1971), acted in numerous radio and television plays, and won Academy Awards for her films The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Airport (1970), three Tony Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was married to Charles MacArthur

Helen Hayes Brown

born Oct. 10, 1900, Washington, D.C., U.S. died March 17, 1993, Nyack, N.Y. U.S. actress. She began her stage career at age five and made her Broadway debut at nine. She went on to an illustrious career, starring in Broadway productions such as Caesar and Cleopatra (1925), What Every Woman Knows (1926), and The Animal Kingdom (1932) and became known as "the First Lady of the American Theatre." Her small physical size belied a majestic stage presence that made her memorable in Mary of Scotland (1933-34) and Victoria Regina (1935-39). She starred in revivals of The Skin of Our Teeth (1955), The Glass Menagerie (1956), and Long Day's Journey into Night (1971), acted in numerous radio and television plays, and won Academy Awards for her films The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Airport (1970), three Tony Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was married to Charles MacArthur

Helen Hull Jacobs

(1908-1997) U.S. tennis player. Jacobs was the national junior tennis champion in 1924-25. She was first defeated by Helen Wills, who would prove to be her longtime rival, in the 1928 finals at Forest Hills, N.Y. Though Wills was virtually always victorious, Jacobs was a popular favourite. Her only victory over Wills came by default. Though often in Wills's shadow, Jacobs won four U.S. Open singles (1932-35), three doubles (1932 and 1934-35), and mixed doubles (1934) championships. She was ranked in the world's top 10 from 1928 to 1940. In 1933 she became the first woman to break with tradition by wearing man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon. Her autobiography, Beyond the Game, appeared in 1936

Helen Hunt

{i} (born 1963) USA film and television actress (star of the TV series "Mad About You" and the film "As Good As It Gets")

Helen Keller

a US writer who is famous for the way she learned to speak and write after becoming blind (=unable to see) and deaf (=unable to hear) as a baby. She greatly helped blind and deaf people by collecting money, making speeches, and trying to change people's attitudes. She was the subject of a famous book and film about her life called The Miracle Worker (1880-1968). born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Ala., U.S. died June 1, 1968, Westport, Conn. U.S. author and educator who was blind and deaf. Deprived by illness of sight and hearing at the age of 19 months, Keller soon became mute as well. Five years later she began to be instructed by Anne Sullivan (1866-1936), who taught her the names of objects by pressing the manual alphabet into her palm. Eventually Keller learned to read and write in Braille. She wrote several books, including The Story of My Life (1902). Her childhood was dramatized in William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker (1959; film, 1962)

Helen Keller

(1880-1968) American writer and lecturer who was blind and deaf from the age of two

Helen Levitt

born Aug. 31, 1913, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. photographer. She began her career in photography at age

Helen Levitt

Her first show, "Photographs of Children," was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1943. It featured the subject matter children, especially the underprivileged and humanity that characterize much of her work. In the mid 1940s Levitt collaborated with the novelist James Agee, filmmaker Sidney Meyers, and painter Janice Loeb on The Quiet One, a prizewinning documentary about a young African American boy. For most of the 1960s she concentrated on film editing and directing. Levitt resumed her pursuit of photography in the 1970s

Helen Lyndon Goff

{i} P. L. Travers (1899-1996), Australian poet and writer, author of "Mary Poppins

Helen Newington Wills

or Helen Wills Moody in full Helen Newington Wills Moody Roark born Oct. 6, 1905, Centerville, Calif., U.S. died Jan. 1, 1998, Carmel, Calif. U.S. tennis player. She won the first of seven U.S. singles titles in 1923. She took the gold medal in both singles and doubles at the 1924 Olympic Games. So overpowering was her game that from 1927 to 1932 she won every set she played in U.S. singles play. She took the Wimbledon title eight times (1927-30, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938), a record only broken in 1990 by Martina Navratilova

Helen Suzman

orig. Helen Gavronsky born Nov. 7, 1917, Germiston, S.Af. South African legislator. Born in the Transvaal to Lithuanian immigrants, she graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, where she later taught economic history (1945-52). Elected to Parliament in 1953, she and 11 others formed the Progressive Party to oppose apartheid. Suzman alone of the group was reelected in 196l; until 1974 she often cast the lone vote against an increasing number of apartheid measures. In 1978 she received the UN Human Rights award. Until her retirement in 1989, she remained a significant voice in the South African Parliament

Helen Tamiris

orig. Helen Becker born April 24, 1905, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Aug. 4, 1966, New York City U.S. choreographer, modern dancer, and teacher. In 1930 she founded her own company and school, which she directed until 1945. Many of her own works, such as Walt Whitman Suite (1934), drew on American themes. From 1945 to 1957 she choreographed Broadway musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Touch and Go (1949; Tony Award for choreography), and Fanny (1954). In 1960 she and her dancer-husband, Daniel Nagrin, founded the Tamiris-Nagrin Dance Company

Helen Thomas

born Aug. 4, 1920, Winchester, Ky., U.S. U.S. journalist. Born to Lebanese immigrant parents, she grew up in Detroit and joined the UPI news agency in Washington, D.C., in 1943. A pioneer in overcoming the limitations on women in the news media, she became known for her bold and tireless pursuit of information. Assigned to the White House in 1961, she became UPI bureau chief there in 1974. She is best known as the reporter traditionally first recognized at presidential press conferences

Helen Wills

or Helen Wills Moody in full Helen Newington Wills Moody Roark born Oct. 6, 1905, Centerville, Calif., U.S. died Jan. 1, 1998, Carmel, Calif. U.S. tennis player. She won the first of seven U.S. singles titles in 1923. She took the gold medal in both singles and doubles at the 1924 Olympic Games. So overpowering was her game that from 1927 to 1932 she won every set she played in U.S. singles play. She took the Wimbledon title eight times (1927-30, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938), a record only broken in 1990 by Martina Navratilova

Helen of Troy

{i} (Greek Mythology) beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris which caused the Trojan War

Helen of Troy

in ancient Greek stories, the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta. Helen was famous for her great beauty, and she is often mentioned in literature as a typical example of a very beautiful woman. When Helen's lover Paris took her away to Troy with him, he caused the Trojan War. The phrase "the face that launched a thousand ships" is often used about her, since the Greeks sailed to Troy to bring her back. Iliad, the

helen keller

Keller: United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)

Robert ; and Lynd Helen Lynd

orig. Helen Merrell born Sept. 26, 1892, New Albany, Ind., U.S. died Nov. 1, 1970, Warren, Conn. born March 17, 1894, La Grange, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 30, 1982, Warren, Ohio U.S. sociologists. The Lynds taught for several decades at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, respectively. In their collaboration on the studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes, they became the first scholars to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city (Muncie, Ind.)

Robert Staughton; and Lynd Helen Lynd

orig. Helen Merrell born Sept. 26, 1892, New Albany, Ind., U.S. died Nov. 1, 1970, Warren, Conn. born March 17, 1894, La Grange, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 30, 1982, Warren, Ohio U.S. sociologists. The Lynds taught for several decades at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, respectively. In their collaboration on the studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes, they became the first scholars to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city (Muncie, Ind.)

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Definition of helen in Turkish English dictionary

Hellene

hellenic

Hyphenation

Hel·en

Turkish pronunciation

helın

Pronunciation

/ˈhelən/ /ˈhɛlən/

Etymology

() From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helenē), possibly connected with ἥλιος (hēlios, “sun”).

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