Crossword-Solution: ALLUSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Allusion | n. | A figurative or symbolical reference. |
| Allusion | n. | A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “ALLUSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Subtle reference | 1 answer |
| Passing reference | 1 answer |
| Literary reference | 1 answer |
| Indirect reference | 1 answer |
| Figurative reference. | 1 answer |
| referral | 6 answers |
| CASUAL REFERENCE | 11 answers |
| Insinuation | 16 answers |
| Implication | 28 answers |
| remark | 32 answers |
| intimation | 39 answers |
| Suggestion | 41 answers |
| Mention | 41 answers |
| Souvenir | 54 answers |
| Reference | 57 answers |
| comment | 61 answers |
| Significance | 77 answers |
| Hint | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALLUSION (5)
Boldwood is ten years older than I, and consider—I do beg of you to consider before it is too late—how safe you would be in his hands!” Oak’s allusion to his own love for her lessened, to some extent, her anger at his interference; but she could not really forgive him for letting his wish to marry her be eclipsed by his wish to do her good, any more than for his slighting treatment of Troy.
Allusion is made, in the first chapter of the “Seven Gables,” to a grant of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family.
Not that she showed she was pleased, but I suppose she was.” The allusion served as a timely reminder to Darnay that this disagreeable companion had, of his own free will, assisted him in the strait of the day.
She made no allusion to it afterwards, and I made none, for a promise is a promise, but she has never known an easy hour from that moment.
From his brother Lysias we learn that he fell a victim to the Thirty Tyrants, but no allusion is here made to his fate, nor to the circumstance that Cephalus and his family were of Syracusan origin, and had migrated from Thurii to Athens.
Quotes with ALLUSION (3)
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction.... Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we oursel…
Verse 12 [of Ex. 12) tells us that the judgment of Yahweh is not only on the Egyptians but also on their deities. This is probably an allusion to the fact that Egyptians would often pray for the safety of their firstborn, particularly firstborn sons, as was the custom in many ancient patriarchal cultures. The death of the firstborn would be seen as a sign of the anger or perhaps the impotence of their gods. This is worth pondering when it comes to the death of Jesus as God’s …
As Deborah sits below a tree to give advice to her people, the cat could envision itself above Deborah. In the cats mind, the visual allusion would first point to the prophetess as being a predator. This consideration would not be hard to reach for the lucid intelligent cat as she is giving advice to her people here as how to engage in war. Envisioning this text, the cats would find it hard not to recognize the predatory nature of the human beneath it. This fact means that De…
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Appears in: NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1967–2016).