Crossword-Solution: ARCTURUS 8 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Arcturus n. A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation
Bootes.

We have 13 clues for the answer “ARCTURUS”

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ALPHA Bootis 1 answer
BOOTES, first magnitude star in 1 answer
Fourth-brightest star in the sky 1 answer
Giant fixed star of Bootes. 1 answer
Great star in Boötes. 1 answer
Guardian of the Bear 1 answer
Guiding star for Hawaiian navigators of yore 1 answer
NORTH American celestial hemisphere, brightest star in the 1 answer
Star in the Plowman constellation 1 answer
Very bright star 2 answers
star in Bootes 2 answers
RED giant of the first magnitude 3 answers
STAR of the first magnitude 9 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with ARCTURUS (5)

Sure he can recall What time together both we drove our flocks, He two, I one, on the Cithaeron range, For three long summers; I his mate from spring Till rose Arcturus; then in winter time I led mine home, he his to Laius’ folds.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Arcturus Arcturus brings the spring back As surely now as when He rose on eastern islands For Grecian girls and men; The twilight is as clear a blue, The star as shaken and as bright, And the same thought he gave to them He gives to me to-night.
Flame and Shadow Sara Teasdale 1996
XXVI He of Mount Alban is the first to say, They should not combat darkling, on the plain; But should their duel till such time delay As slow Arcturus should have turned his wain.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
Compassed were her folk With wailing misery: through her streets the foe Exulted, as when madding blasts turmoil The boundless sea, what time the Altar ascends To heaven's star-pavement, turned to the misty south Overagainst Arcturus tempest-breathed, And with its rising leap the wild winds forth, And ships full many are whelmed 'neath ravening seas; Wild as those stormy winds Achaea's sons Ravaged steep Ilium while she burned in flame.
The Fall of Troy Smyrnaeus Quintus 1996
The suggestion to employ such an apparatus in astronomical observations occurs at once, and it may be noted that in one instance the heat of rays of light from the remote star Arcturus gave results.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006

Quotes with ARCTURUS (2)

There were spaceships again in that century, an dthe ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some tribal god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species that considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely …
Walter M. Miller Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz
There were spaceships again in that century, and the ships were manned by fuzzy impossibilities that walked on two legs and sprouted tufts of hair in unlikely anatomical regions. They were a garrulous kind. They belonged to a race quite capable of admiring its own image in a mirror, and equally capable of cutting its own throat before the altar of some god, such as the deity of Daily Shaving. It was a species which often considered itself to be, basically, a race of divinely …
Walter M. Miller Jr.
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1944–2020).