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Crossword-Solution: NESTOR 6 letters, 92 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Nestor n. A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and
papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

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Word Anagrams
NESTOR anagram NOREST, NORTES, NOSTER, NOTERS, NOTRES, RESTON, ROSTEN, STERNO, STERON, STONER, TENORS, TENSOR, TONERS, TORNES, TRONES

We have 92 clues for the answer “NESTOR”

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King of Pylos 1 answer
Royal personage in Iliad and Odyssey. 1 answer
Role in "Troilus and Cressida." 1 answer
Patriarchal type 1 answer
One of the Greeks at Troy 1 answer
Oldest and wisest member. 1 answer
Oldest and wisest man. 1 answer
Oldest Greek in the Trojan War 1 answer
Odyssey character 1 answer
Legendary mentor 1 answer
King who counseled Agamemnon 1 answer
Russian chronicler 1 answer
Homeric wise guy 1 answer
Hall of Fame umpire Chylak 1 answer
Greek in the Trojan War 1 answer
Greek counselor at Troy. 1 answer
Grand old man 1 answer
Eldest Greek in the Trojan War. 1 answer
Elder statesman of the "Iliad" 1 answer
Elder counselor 1 answer
Counselor to the Greeks at Troy 1 answer
Counselor at Troy 1 answer
Wise Greek advisor in the Iliad 1 answer
Wisest man. 1 answer
Wise-counseling king of Pylos. 1 answer
Wise old man in the Trojan War 1 answer
Wise old counselor. 1 answer
Wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy 1 answer
Wise old King of Pylos. 1 answer
Wise old Greek 1 answer
Wise man of the "Iliad" 1 answer
Wise king of Pylos. 1 answer
Wise counsellor of ancient Greece 1 answer
Counselor of the Greeks at Troy. 1 answer
Troy wise man 1 answer
Trojan wise man 1 answer
Trojan sage 1 answer
Trojan advisor 1 answer
Trojan War wise man 1 answer
Trojan War sage 1 answer
Trojan War counselor 1 answer
Trojan War adviser 1 answer
Sage old Greek. 1 answer
Sage of Greek myth 1 answer
Conselor of the Greeks at Troy 1 answer
"Iliad" adviser 1 answer
"Iliad" advisor 1 answer
"Iliad" sage 1 answer
"Iliad" wise man 1 answer
"Lost" actor Carbonell 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NESTOR (5)

The lordes ben togedre come; This Demephon and Athemas Here pourpos tolden, as it was; Thei sieten alle stille and herde, Was non bot Nestor hem ansuerde.
Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995
And he possessed all manner of gifts which cannot be told, and these then ensnared him through the devising of Athene.’ Fragment #11—Stephanus of Byzantium 1708, s.v.: ‘(Heracles) slew the noble sons of steadfast Neleus, eleven of them; but the twelfth, the horsemen Gerenian Nestor chanced to be staying with the horse-taming Gerenians.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Homer and Hesiod 2008
All the time, his lights were in every part of the world, guiding the mariner; his firm were consulting engineers to the Indian, the New Zealand, and the Japanese Lighthouse Boards, so that Edinburgh was a world centre for that branch of applied science; in Germany, he had been called “the Nestor of lighthouse illumination”; even in France, where his claims were long denied, he was at last, on the occasion of the late Exposition, recognised and medalled.
Memories and Portraits Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Whew! that's something to think about!" CHAPTER VI UNPLEASANT NEWS Ned Newton decided to keep to himself what he had heard at the Nestor home.
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders Victor Appleton 2002
Had it not been for the chance that caused Cogdon Nestor to throw down his sleeping rug directly over the hidden instrument, it might still be clicking there unheard—and this story still unwritten.
Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996

Quotes with NESTOR (3)

This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made to the events of the Iliad. Agamemnon's panicked prize-grabbing in Book One and even Nestor's rambling "authority" pale beside Achilles' instinctive and absolute command of himself and the dangers of this occasion.
Caroline Alexander The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
Tamora Pierce Bloodhound
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other. I could have had differentancestors, after all. I could have flutteredfrom another nestor crawled bescaledfrom under another tree. Nature's wardrobeholds a fair supply of costumes: spider, seagull, field mouse. Each fits perfectly right offand is dutifully worninto shreds.
Wislawa Szymborska Monologue of a Dog
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 111 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).