Crossword-Solution: SAMIAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Samian | a. | Of or pertaining to the island of Samos. |
| Samian | n. | A native or inhabitant of Samos. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SAMIAN | anagram | AMANIS, ANIMAS, ISAMAN, MAASIN, MANIAS, MANISA |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SAMIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AEGEAN people, ancient | 1 answer |
| Samos native | 1 answer |
| Greek islander | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SAMIAN (5)
And so Callimachus writes: ‘I am the work of that Samian who once received divine Homer in his house.
The pilot, as they hung from level yards Shifted the sails; and hauling to the stern One sheet, he slacked the other, to the left Steering, where Samian rocks and Chian marred The stillness of the waters; while the sea Sent up in answer to the changing keel A different murmur.
The Lydian, Syracusan, Samian show This truth, and more whose names I shall not sound; All into deepest dolour in one day Hurled headlong from the height of sovereign sway.
Archimedes, also, should be included in the list, for he was a pupil of the Alexandrian school, having studied (if Proclus is to be trusted) in Egypt, under Conon the Samian, during the reigns of two Ptolemies, Philadelphus and Euergetes.
SOCRATES: Or did you ever know of any one in sculpture, who was skilful in expounding the merits of Daedalus the son of Metion, or of Epeius the son of Panopeus, or of Theodorus the Samian, or of any individual sculptor; but when the works of sculptors in general were produced, was at a loss and went to sleep and had nothing to say? ION: No indeed; no more than the other.
Quotes with SAMIAN (1)
I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).