Crossword-Solution: NIOBE 5 letters, 157 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Niobe	n.	The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

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Word		Anagrams
NIOBE	anagram	EBONI

We have 157 clues for the answer “NIOBE”

Clue	Answers
"Like __, all tears ...": Hamlet	1 answer
"Like ___, all tears"	1 answer
"Like ___, all tears": Shak.	1 answer
"Like ___, all tears."—Hamlet.	1 answer
A daughter of Dione	1 answer
ALPHENOR, mother of	1 answer
AMPHION, wife of	1 answer
ARGUS, mother of	1 answer
Amphion's wife	1 answer
Analogue of Lot's wife in Greek mythology	1 answer
Apollo and Diana slew her children.	1 answer
Apollo killed her sons and Artemis killed her daughters	1 answer
Boastful mother of Greek myth	1 answer
CHLORIS, mother of	1 answer
Character in mythology noted for her tears	1 answer
Character of myth for whom an element is named	1 answer
Classical crier	1 answer
Classical weeper	1 answer
Cracked bone enthrals one proud parent	1 answer
Crier of Greek myth	1 answer
Crier of mythology	1 answer
Daughter of Tantalus	1 answer
Daughter of Tantalus who was changed into a stone.	1 answer
Daughter of Tantalus who was turned to stone	1 answer
Daughter of Tantalus whom Zeus turned to stone	1 answer
Daughter of Tantulus.	1 answer
Daughter-in-law of Zeus	1 answer
Element #41 is named after her	1 answer
Epitome of sadness	1 answer
Eponym of element 41	1 answer
Fabled mother of twelve.	1 answer
Grecian mother of twelve.	1 answer
Greek Mythology weeper	1 answer
Greek weeper	1 answer
Grief-stricken mother of myth	1 answer
INCONSOLABLE bereaved woman	1 answer
In Greek mythology, she turned to stone	1 answer
Jada Pinkett-Smith's character in "The Matrix" films with a mythological name	1 answer
Lachrymose lady	1 answer
Legendary Greek mother	1 answer
Legendary lamenter	1 answer
Legendary queen of Thebes.	1 answer
Legendary weeper	1 answer
Leto's taunter	1 answer
Lost play by Aeschylus	1 answer
MYTHICAL Greek mother	1 answer
Mother -- weeping stone	1 answer
Mother who was "all tears"	1 answer
Mourner turned to stone	1 answer
Mournful mother of myth	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AARE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with NIOBE (5)

Hudson, in the tone in which Niobe may have addressed the avenging archers, after she had seen her eldest-born fall.

Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Eek I nil not be cured, I wol deye; What knowe I of the quene Niobe? Lat be thyne olde ensaumples, I thee preye.' 760 `No,' quod tho Pandarus, `therfore I seye, Swich is delyt of foles to biwepe Hir wo, but seken bote they ne kepe.

Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer 1995

You’re wroth--can you slay your snake like Apollo? You’re grieved--still Niobe’s the grander! You live--there’s the Racers’ frieze to follow: You die--there’s the dying Alexander.

Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008

Madame de Chantelle, in her armchair near the fire, clasped her little granddaughter to her with the gesture of a drawing-room Niobe, and Anna, seated near them, had fallen into one of the attitudes of vivid calm which seemed to Darrow to express her inmost quality.

The Reef Edith Wharton 1995

Wherever, Niobe, thou turn'st thine eyes, New beauties kindle, and new joys arise! But thou had'st far the happier mother prov'd, If this fair offspring had been less belov'd: What if their charms exceed Aurora's teint.

Religious and Moral Poems Phillis Wheatley 1996

Quotes with NIOBE (2)

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperi…

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Frailty, thy name is woman! — A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears: —

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 268 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).