Crossword-Solution: PENATES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penates | n. pl. | The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PENATES | anagram | PESANTE |
We have 15 clues for the answer “PENATES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Household gods of Rome | 1 answer |
| Lares and ___, household gods. | 1 answer |
| Lares et ___ | 1 answer |
| Lares' partners | 1 answer |
| Lares' relatives | 1 answer |
| Partner of Lares | 1 answer |
| Roman home protectors | 1 answer |
| Vestal gods. | 1 answer |
| Gods of ancient Rome | 2 answers |
| Roman household gods | 2 answers |
| Roman gods | 3 answers |
| Roman deities. | 3 answers |
| Tutelary deities | 3 answers |
| God's __ | 4 answers |
| Household gods | 4 answers |
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Sentences with PENATES (5)
Maggie Shane was sitting on the upper step of the long flight of stairs which lean precariously against the scarred face of the frame residence upon the second floor front of which the lares and penates of the Shane family are crowded into three ill-smelling rooms.
The adoration paid to the Lares and Penates, the household gods of the Romans, on the first of May, is an example of this worship, as is also the homage paid by the Chinese to their progenitors.
She judged, rightly enough, that beneath those gilded ceilings her old ‘penates’ might have a singular effect.” “See how all things link together,” remarked Phellion, “and how, from the summits of society, luxury infiltrates itself, sooner or later, through the lower classes, leading to the ruin of empires.” “You are broaching there, my dear commander,” said Minard, “one of the most knotty questions of political economy.
Have you noticed anything in the shape of a lover hanging around the colonel Lares and Penates? Does that lieutenant of the horse-marines or that young Stillwater parson visit the house much? Not that I am pining for news of them, but any gossip of the kind would be in order.
They have got their Court about them, dames and cavaliers more than we expected; they have arranged the furnitures of their existence here on fit scale, and set up their Lares and Penates on a thrifty footing.
Quotes with PENATES (2)
A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a woman, with likes and dislikes: a jealous woman. The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names--Mars of the fields and the war, Vesta the fire, Ceres the grain, Mo…
The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names — Mars of the fields and the war; Vesta the fire; Ceres the grain; Mother Tellus the earth; the Penates of the storehouse. The rivers, the springs. And in the stormcloud and the light is the great power called the father god. But they aren’t people. They don’t love and hate, they aren’t for or against. They accept the worship due them, which augments their power, through which we live.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1949–2005).