Pronunciation: (ar"ē-ad'nē), [key]
1. Class. Myth.a daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë who gave Theseus the thread by which he escaped from the labyrinth: deserted by Theseus on Naxos, she became the bride of Dionysus.
2. a female given name.
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