Crossword-Solution: PROTEUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Proteus | n. | A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles. |
| Proteus | n. | A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak. |
| Proteus | n. | A changeable protozoan; an amoeba. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROTEUS | anagram | PETROUS, POSTURE, POTUSER, POUTERS, SEPTUOR, SPOUTER, STOREUP, TROUPES |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PROTEUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Greek old man of the sea. | 1 answer |
| Mythological shape-shifter | 1 answer |
| Old man of the sea, to Homer | 1 answer |
| POSEIDON, subject of | 1 answer |
| Poseidon's herdsman | 1 answer |
| Shape-shifting Greek sea god | 1 answer |
| Shape-shifting Greek god | 2 answers |
| Greek sea god | 4 answers |
| god of seas | 6 answers |
| CHANGEABLE thing | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROTEUS (5)
Then, I said, my dear friend, let none of the poets tell us that The gods, taking the disguise of strangers from other lands, walk up and down cities in all sorts of forms; and let no one slander Proteus and Thetis, neither let any one, either in tragedy or in any other kind of poetry, introduce Here disguised in the likeness of a priestess asking an alms For the life-giving daughters of Inachus the river of Argos; --let us have no more lies of that sort.
Thus I only knew we were near the Island of Carpathos, one of the Sporades, by Captain Nemo reciting these lines from Virgil: “Est Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, Caeruleus Proteus,” as he pointed to a spot on the planisphere.
There is a cavern vast Scooped in the mountain-side, where wave on wave By the wind's stress is driven, and breaks far up Its inmost creeks- safe anchorage from of old For tempest-taken mariners: therewithin, Behind a rock's huge barrier, Proteus hides.
There are three living orders: (1) The tailless, as the frogs (Anura); (2) The tailed (Urodela), as the salamanders, and the siren group (Sirenoidea), which retain the gills of the young state (hence called Perennibranchiata) through the adult state, among which are the siren, proteus, etc.; (3) The C?cilians, or serpentlike Amphibia (Ophiomorpha or Gymnophiona), with minute scales and without limbs.
Mahinui—from whom our convict-catechist had been named—the spirit of the sea, like a Proteus endowed with endless avatars, came to the assistance of the shipwrecked and carried them ashore in the guise of a ray fish.
Quotes with PROTEUS (3)
Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, …
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, …
You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Reasons produc'd to advance it into the Class of Wisdom. Reason itself is a Mist.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1958–2012).