Crossword-Solution: AMERICUS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AMERICUS | anagram | MAURICES |
We have 3 clues for the answer “AMERICUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Latin first name of S. A.'s discoverer. | 1 answer |
| Mr. Vespucius. | 1 answer |
| Vespucius | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with AMERICUS (5)
The whole world honors him as the Discoverer of America; and yet the very name that the Western Hemisphere bears comes not from the man who discovered it, but from his friend and comrade Americus Vespucius.
Like Columbus, this Americus Vespucius was an Italian; like him, he was a daring sailor and a fearless adventurer, sailing into strange seas to see what he could find.
And some of the map-makers in France, when they had to name the new lands in the West that they drew on their maps--the lands that were not the Indies, nor China, nor Japan--called them after the man who had told them so much about them--Americus Vespucius.
But when the old folks would ask him to preach some of the old sermons they had liked, he only would say, 'No, friends, I know more about my sermons, now.' He didn't live very long, and I always kinder fancied being a AMERICUS killed him.
And some days I git to feeling like I was a kinder AMERICUS myself.” “That ain't fair to your children,” said Tilly; “you ought to let them know how you feel.
Quotes with AMERICUS (2)
The Awakening Land" p614 But what in God's name did folks today want to make the whole world over like they were for? In her time in the woods, everybody she knew was egged on to be his own special self. He could live and think like he wanted to and no two humans you met up with were alike. Each had his own particular beliefs and his reasons for owning to them. Folks were a joy to talk to then, for all were different. Even the simple-minded were original in their own notions.…
ab Americo Inventore ... quasi Americi terram sive Americam From Amerigo the discoverer ... as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1950–1975).