Crossword-Solution: HECUBA 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

We have 38 clues for the answer “HECUBA”

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Queen in the Iliad 1 answer
POLYXEMA, mother of 1 answer
PRIAM, wife of 1 answer
Paris mother 1 answer
Paris's mother 1 answer
Priam wife 1 answer
Priam's wife 1 answer
Priam's wife, in the "Iliad" 1 answer
Prism's wife 1 answer
POLYXENA, mother of 1 answer
Queen of Troy 1 answer
Trojan War queen 1 answer
Wife of King Priam 1 answer
Wife of Priam 1 answer
Wife of Priam home 1 answer
mother Hector 1 answer
mother Paris 1 answer
wife Priam 1 answer
PARIS, mother of 1 answer
"Iliad" wife 1 answer
CASSANDRA, mother of 1 answer
CREUSA, mother of 1 answer
Cassandra's mother 1 answer
DEIPHOBUS, mother of 1 answer
HECTOR, mother of 1 answer
HELENUS, mother of 1 answer
Hector mother 1 answer
Hector's mother. 1 answer
King Priam's wife 1 answer
Mother of Hector and Cassandra 1 answer
Mother of Hector in the "Iliad" 1 answer
Mother of Paris 1 answer
Mother of Paris and Hector 1 answer
TROILUS, mother of 2 answers
POLYDORUS, mother of 2 answers
parent of Antiphus 3 answers
Euripides play 8 answers
DAUGHTER OF PRIAM 13 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HECUBA (5)

This Priamus hadde in his yhte A wif, and Hecuba sche hyhte, Be whom that time ek hadde he Of Sones fyve, and douhtres thre 7310 Besiden hem, and thritty mo, And weren knyhtes alle tho, Bot noght upon his wif begete, Bot elles where he myhte hem gete Of wommen whiche he hadde knowe; Such was the world at thilke throwe: So that he was of children riche, As therof was noman his liche.
Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995
With her "all o'er-teeming loins," this woman, Hecuba in no other particular, must have been a very sow were this her motive.
She Stands Accused Victor MacClure 1996
While he was in this irresolute mind there came to the court certain players, in whom Hamlet formerly used to take delight, and particularly to hear one of them speak a tragical speech, describing the death of old Priam, King of Troy, with the grief of Hecuba his queen.
Tales from Shakespeare Charles and Mary Lamb 1996
LXXIII Pale, lean, and wrinkled was the face, and white, And thinly clothed with hair Alcina's head; Her stature reached not to six palms in height, And every tooth was gone; for she had led A longer life than ever mortal wight, Than Hecuba or she in Cuma bred; But thus by practice, to our age unknown, Appeared with youth and beauty not her own.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
Then Peleus' bride gave unto him the arms Of godlike Troilus, the goodliest Of all fair sons whom Hecuba had borne In hallowed Troy; yet of his goodlihead No joy she had; the prowess and the spear Of fell Achilles reft his life from him.
The Fall of Troy Smyrnaeus Quintus 1996

Quotes with HECUBA (3)

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be like killing family? Wouldn't it be making some other mother grieve? So I didn't kill him, but if I had, I might have saved Hector's child. Dead or damned, that's the choice w…
Sheri S. Tepper The Gate to Women's Country
Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.
Costas Taktsis The Third Wedding
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?
William Shakespeare Hamlet
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.

Used 34 times in crossword archives (1955–2022).