Crossword-Solution: METIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metis | n. f. | Alt. of Metisse |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METIS | anagram | EMITS, IMSET, ISMET, ITEMS, ITSME, MEIST, MESIT, MISTE, MITES, SITEM, SMITE, STIME, TIMES |
We have 30 clues for the answer “METIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ZEUS, wife of, first | 1 answer |
| PERSON of mixed ancestry | 1 answer |
| One of three Canadian aboriginal groups | 1 answer |
| ONE of mixed breed | 1 answer |
| Mother of Athena | 1 answer |
| MIXED ancestry, person of | 1 answer |
| Louis Riel's people | 1 answer |
| Louis Riel's group | 1 answer |
| Crossbred animal | 1 answer |
| Canadian people whose flag bears an infinity symbol | 1 answer |
| Athena's mother | 1 answer |
| ATHENA, mother of | 1 answer |
| ANCESTRY, person of mixed | 1 answer |
| person of mixed parentage | 2 answers |
| Half-breed | 2 answers |
| First wife of Zeus. | 2 answers |
| Canadian people | 2 answers |
| PERSON of mixed blood | 3 answers |
| Octoroon | 3 answers |
| mulatto | 3 answers |
| Wife of Zeus | 3 answers |
| MIXED blood, person of | 4 answers |
| One of Jupiter's moons | 4 answers |
| wife Zeus | 5 answers |
| Zeus wife | 5 answers |
| mestizo | 6 answers |
| ZEUS, wife of | 11 answers |
| A PERSON IN WESTERN CANADA WHO IS OF CAUCASIAN AND AMERICAN INDIAN ANCESTRY | 11 answers |
| breed half | 12 answers |
| half breed | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with METIS (5)
And she remained hidden beneath the inward parts of Zeus, even Metis, Athena’s mother, worker of righteousness, who was wiser than gods and mortal men.
But it was another view which Sebastian preferred; that this object was sepulchral, namely, in its motive--the one surviving relic of a grand burial, in the ancient manner, of a king or hero, whose very tomb was wasted away.--Sunt metis metae! There came with it the odd fancy that he himself would like to have been dead and gone as long ago, with a kind of envy of those whose deceasing was so long since over.
When Zeus reached years of discretion, he married Metis, and this lady, according to the scholiast on Hesiod, had the power of transforming herself into any shape she pleased.
This adventure of the (Greek text omitted) or swallowing of Metis was explained by the late Platonists as a Platonic allegory.
This Phanes held within him "the seed of all the gods,"(2) and his name is confused with the names of Metis and Ericapaeus in a kind of trinity.
Quotes with METIS (1)
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1943–2021).