1. beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Ariadne
n 1: beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love
with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found
his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth