Meaning Of The Word Iphigenia

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Iphigenia in American English
a daughter of Agamemnon, offered by him as a sacrifice to Artemis and, in some versions, saved by the goddess, who makes her a priestess
noun: the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became

Iphigenia in British English
noun: the daughter of Agamemnon, taken by him to be sacrificed to Artemis, who saved her life and made her a priestess

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