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Crossword-Solution: EOSTRE 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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EOSTRE anagram EROTES, ESTERO, ORESTE, ROSETE, STEERO, STEREO

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Anglo-Saxon goddess who gave name to Easter. 1 answer
Goddess for whom Easter was named 1 answer
Dawn goddess 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EOSTRE (5)

Amongst the objects of this class must be reckoned the goddess Eostre, who, from the etymology of the name, as well as from the season sacred to her, was probably that beautiful planet which the Greeks and Romans worshipped under the names of Lucifer and Venus.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) Edmund Burke 2005
Eostre, the goddess of the dawn or of the spring, lends her name to the Christian festival of the Resurrection.
History of the English People, Volume I (of 8) John Richard Green 2005
Such were the Mithraic feast of the 25th of December, or the egg of Eostre-tide, and a multitude of Celtic or Teutonic agricultural ceremonies.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 Various 2010
The Anglo-Saxons called April _Oster-monath_ or _Eostur-monath_, the period sacred to _Eostre_ or _Ostara_, the pagan Saxon goddess of spring, from whose name is derived the modern Easter.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 Various 2010
Bede, as a historian, is obliged to tell the story of the conversion; but the only native divinities he mentions are the goddesses Hreth and Eostre, and all we learn about them is that they gave their names to Hrethemonath (March) and Easter.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 Various 2011

Quotes with EOSTRE (1)

Legend tells us that the High King of Tara, who ruled supreme over all the Kings of Ireland, looked out from his castle one day during the festival of Eostre and saw a fire blazing away on a far hillside. Furious with this obvious disregard for the law, for which the penalty was death, he sent out soldiers to arrest the guilty party. When the soldiers arrived at the hillside they found St Patrick, the patron Saint of Ireland, piling wood onto his fire and immediately seized h…
Carole Carlton Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1950–1977).