Crossword-Solution: AEOLIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aeolian | a. | Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect. |
| Aeolian | a. | Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “AEOLIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| -- harp (instrument 'played' by the wind) | 1 answer |
| Ancient Hellenic | 1 answer |
| Carried or eroded by wind (var.) | 1 answer |
| Driven by the wind | 1 answer |
| the ancient Greek inhabitants of Aeolia | 1 answer |
| Harp type | 1 answer |
| ___ harp (stringed instrument played by the wind) | 1 answer |
| LIPARI Islands, ancient name for the | 1 answer |
| Of the wind (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Relating to the wind | 1 answer |
| Wind harp. | 1 answer |
| eolian | 2 answers |
| Pertaining to the wind | 2 answers |
| windborne | 3 answers |
| Kind of harp | 3 answers |
| GREEK mode, ancient | 3 answers |
| Wind-blown | 4 answers |
| Harp | 11 answers |
| ANCIENT HARP | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ARCOEN
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with AEOLIAN (5)
There thou shalt hear and learn the secret power Of harmony, in tones and numbers hit By voice or hand, and various-measured verse, AEolian charms and Dorian lyric odes, And his who gave them breath, but higher sung, Blind Melesigenes, thence Homer called, Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own.
Because Mankind's heart every day is wrung By Fate's wild hands that twist and tear it so, Therefore you echoed Man's undying woe, A harp Aeolian on Life's branches hung.
The scene was brisk; the cranes creaked and swung incessantly with a rattle of chains; stevedores and wharfingers toiled and perspired; boatswains and dock-masters shouted orders, drays rumbled, the water lapped at the piles; a group of sailors, painting the flanks of one of the great ships, raised an occasional chanty; the trade wind sang aeolian in the cordages, filling the air with the nimble taint of salt.
Hellen had three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, parents of the Dorian, Ionic and Aeolian races, and the offspring of these was then detailed.
And one day he came to this very place crossing over a great stretch of sea; he left Aeolian Cyme and fled, not from riches and substance, but from wretched poverty which Zeus lays upon men, and he settled near Helicon in a miserable hamlet, Ascra, which is bad in winter, sultry in summer, and good at no time.
Quotes with AEOLIAN (1)
Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound Seems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught; Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound; For I am weary, and am overwrought With too much toil, with too much care distraught, And with the iron crown of anguish crowned. Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek, O peaceful Sleep! until from pain released I breathe again uninterrupted breath! Ah,…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1955–2020).