Crossword-Solution: BENARES 7 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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BENARES anagram BEANERS, BEREANS, BESNARE

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Hindu sacred city. 1 answer
Varanasi's old name 1 answer
Site of India's Golden Temple 1 answer
Site of Golden Temple. 1 answer
Scene of life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. 1 answer
Old name of Varanasi, India 1 answer
INDIAN sacred city 1 answer
Holy city of India. 1 answer
Holy city in India. 1 answer
Holy Indian city. 1 answer
Holy City of the Hindus. 1 answer
Hindus' Holy City, now called Varanasi 1 answer
Great Hindu center. 1 answer
Ganges holy city 1 answer
Ganges city, formerly 1 answer
Ganges River city. 1 answer
Former name of Varanasi, India 1 answer
Hindu holy city 2 answers
Holy City on the Ganges. 2 answers
Sacred Indian city. 2 answers
City on the Ganges 3 answers
HINDU city 5 answers
SACRED City 5 answers
City of India 13 answers
Holy City 15 answers
Indian city 15 answers
HOLY of Holies, containment of the 41 answers
holy place 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with BENARES (5)

Preserved by three Brahmins, the inviolate deity, bearing the Yellow Diamond in its forehead, was removed by night, and was transported to the second of the sacred cities of India—the city of Benares.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
Athens might help you, but for the present I should n’t recommend Benares.” “It will be time to arrange details when I pack my trunk,” said Hudson.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
They go up and down the rivers in their own boats, pretending to be travellers of consequence, or pilgrims, proceeding to, or returning from Benares, Allahabad, or other sacred places.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Charles Mackay 1996
Maurice was informed that an immemorial tradition prevailed at Benares that all the learning of India came from a country situated in forty degrees of northern latitude.
The God-Idea of the Ancients Eliza Burt Gamble 1996
Then Robert wriggled out from under the stall with some Benares brass and some inlaid sandalwood boxes.
The Phoenix and the Carpet E. Nesbit 1997

Quotes with BENARES (2)

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a f…
Mark Twain Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
George Williams, the revered evolutionary biologist, describes the natural world as “grossly immoral.” Having no foresight or compassion, natural selection “can honestly be described as a process for maximizing short-sighted selfishness.” On top of all the miseries inflicted by predators and parasites, the members of a species show no pity to their own kind. Infanticide, siblicide, and rape can be observed in many kinds of animals; infidelity is common even in so-called pair-…
Steven Pinker The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Used 23 times in crossword archives (1942–2021).