Crossword-Solution: KOINE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| KOINE | anagram | EIKON, ENOKI, KEINO, KINEO |
We have 13 clues for the answer “KOINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A lingua franca | 1 answer |
| COMMON language shared by various peoples | 1 answer |
| Form of Greek | 1 answer |
| LANGUAGE shared by various peoples | 1 answer |
| LANGUAGE, standard variety of | 1 answer |
| Language in which the New Testament was written | 1 answer |
| Language of the New Testament. | 1 answer |
| common language among speakers of different languages | 1 answer |
| Greek language? | 3 answers |
| Lingua franca | 3 answers |
| COMMON language | 4 answers |
| Greek dialect | 8 answers |
| Ancient Greek dialect | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KOINE (5)
Thee Dacians fierce, and Scythian hordes, Peoples and towns, and Koine, their head, And mothers of barbarian lords, And tyrants in their purple dread, Lest, spurn'd by thee in scorn, should fall The state's tall prop, lest crowds on fire To arms, to arms! the loiterers call, And thrones be tumbled in the mire.
But as we were then leaving Koine, and were not yet melted with the grief of absence, I had the courage to resist their demand.
CAXTON.--"That is, my dears, 'The woman you would marry is either handsome or ugly: if handsome, she is koine,--namely, you don't have her to yourself; if ugly, she is /poine/,--that is, a fury.' But, as it is observed in Aulus Gellius (whence I borrow this citation), there is a wide interval between handsome and ugly.
CAXTON.--“That is, my dears, ‘The woman you would marry is either handsome or ugly: if handsome, she is koine,--namely, you don’t have her to yourself; if ugly, she is poine,--that is, a fury.’ But, as it is observed in Aulus Gellius (whence I borrow this citation), there is a wide interval between handsome and ugly.
The greater portion of Greek literature from the close of ancient times down to the threshold of modern history was written in a language identical in its principal features with the common literary language, the so-called Koine, which had its origin in the Alexandrian age.
Quotes with KOINE (1)
What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34." Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion armor during World War Two. The T-34 tank had been the Soviet Union's salvation and thereby the salvation of all the Allied Powers- and, by extension, Horselover Fat's, since without the T-34 he would be speaking - not english or Latin or the koine - but German.
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Appears in: NYT, Slate.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1966–2001).