First Known Use: 15th century
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Orestes
noun Ores·tes \ə-ˈres-(ˌ)tēz, ȯ-\
Definition of ORESTES
: the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who with his sister Electra avenges his father by killing his mother and her lover Aegisthus
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Origin of ORESTES
Latin, from Greek Orestēs
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