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Noun king oedipus has 1 sense

Oedipus, King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex - (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
--₁ is a kind of mythical being