Crossword-Solution: HEGIRA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hegira | n. | The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HEGIRA | anagram | HEGARI |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with HEGIRA (5)
But see how closely, so far, each detail tallies with the world-old story of the hegira of the yellow race.
The little box of a house vibrated with excitement and confusion, for not only were the preparations for Trina's marriage to be made, but also the preliminaries were to be arranged for the hegira of the entire Sieppe family.
Munro, sir, for I was shipmates with fifty dead men when I was commanding the armed transport Hegira in the Black Sea, and I know ---- well what I am talking about.” I fill in Whitehall’s oaths with blanks because I feel how hopeless it is to reproduce their energy and variety.
Two years after the death of Mahomet, the sacred volume was collected and published by his friend and successor Abubeker: the work was revised by the caliph Othman, in the thirtieth year of the Hegira; and the various editions of the Koran assert the same miraculous privilege of a uniform and incorruptible text.
Every summer witnesses a hegira of sun baked people fleeing from the hot desert to the mountains or ocean shore in search of coolness and comfort.
Quotes with HEGIRA (1)
I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had just poured me another drink, and I was having one of those rare moments any serious drunk can tell you about. A piece of real quiet. Jose's cheeks bristled because he didn't shave very often, and his apron was dingy because it didn't get washed very often, and his fingernails had little crescents of grime under them. The glass he poured for me wasn…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1942–2022).