Cordelia
Truthful youngest child
Cordelia is a feminine given name, best known from Shakespeare's *King Lear*, where Cordelia is the youngest daughter whose honest love contrasts with her sisters' flattery.
The name suggests sincerity and quiet virtue.
It also appears in astronomy as a moon of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
- ReganIrish feminine name
- KentEnglish county near Dover
- GloucesterCoastal city in Massachusetts
- EdgarMale given name
Edmund · Albany · Cornwall · France · Burgundy · loyalty · filial · disownment
King Lear
- ReganIrish feminine name
- KentEnglish county near Dover
- GloucesterCoastal city in Massachusetts
Edgar · Edmund · Albany · Cornwall · France · Burgundy · loyalty · filial · disownment · banishment
daughter
Female child of parents
Welsh · etymology · literary · namesake · christening · baptism · identity · Delia · revival · popularity
Uranus
Sideways-spinning outer world
ring · Ophelia · Bianca · planetary · satellite · discovery · Voyager · 1986 · small · irregular
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- MoonsLuna, Titan, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
- Old-Fashioned NamesMildred, Gertrude, Ethel, Edna, Bertha
- elegant namesVictoria, Arabella, Genevieve, Josephine, Evangeline
- Shakespeare CharactersHamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo, Juliet
- daughters in literatureJane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Scout Finch, Antigone, Jo March