English

Proper noun

Cordelia

1. A female given name.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, Act I:Scene 1:

     What shall Cordelia do? Love, and be silent.

   • 1995 Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, ISBN 0679441557, page 8:

     "I don't believe I've ever run into a Delia before." "Well, it's Cordelia, really. My father named me that." "And are you one?" "Am I one what?" "Are you your father's Cordelia?"

2. (astronomy) A moon of Uranus