Crossword-Solution: BELLWETHER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bellwether | n. | A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck. |
| Bellwether | n. | Hence: A leader. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “BELLWETHER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Predictor or indicator of change | 1 answer |
| The leading sheep of a flock with a bell on its neck | 1 answer |
| V.I.P. among sheep | 1 answer |
| sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | 1 answer |
| someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | 1 answer |
| the leading sheep of a flock; fig, a ringleader, a trendsetter | 1 answer |
| Leader of the flock | 4 answers |
| Flock leader | 6 answers |
| Lead | 75 answers |
| Leadership | 76 answers |
| Leader? | 81 answers |
| Guide | 90 answers |
| Leading | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BELLWETHER (5)
Such was the vulgar pronunciation which the stern Gardiner maintained by penal statutes in the university of Cambridge: but the monosyllable bh represented to an Attic ear the bleating of sheep, and a bellwether is better evidence than a bishop or a chancellor.
Several old ladies forthwith proclaimed their intention of following him; but, as one or two of them were deaf, and another had been threatened with an attack of that mild, but obstinate complaint, dementia senilis, many thought it was not so much the force of his arguments as a kind of tendency to jump as the bellwether jumps, well known in flocks not included in the Christian fold.
You saw her.” “I saw her? Yes, I did see her, the brazen bellwether! And she saw me, and spoke to you in her insolence.
Lady Arabella (Miss Patty) then expresses a devout wish that Lady Trotter (wife of Sir Lambkin Trotter, Bart.), in whose house they are supposed to be, will not keep them waiting as long as she detained her aunt, Lady Bellwether, when the poor old lady fell asleep from sheer fatigue, and was found snoring on the sofa.
But if the heart and mind of any one of us are bent upon something really good and which may be said to be pleasing in the sight of God, and he successfully executes it, then, Christine, then--I have noticed it in a hundred instances--then the rest rush after him like sheep after the bellwether." "And this time you, and the other Berthold, were the leaders," cried Fran Christine, hastily pressing a kiss upon her old husband's cheek behind the curtain.
Quotes with BELLWETHER (3)
Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting pleasure in cruelty and suffering, while the grotesque figures of the people in Cruikshank’s illustrations revealed too clearly the hideous distortions of their souls. What had seemed humorous now appeared diabolic, and in disgust at these two favourites he turned to Walter Pater for the repose and dignity of a classic spirit…
California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.
Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1974–2023).