Crossword-Solution: URANIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Urania | n. | One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. |
| Urania | n. | A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| URANIA | anagram | ANURIA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with URANIA (5)
Descend from Heav’n _Urania_, by that name If rightly thou art call’d, whose Voice divine Following, above th’ _Olympian_ Hill I soare, Above the flight of _Pegasean_ wing.
Here was the Venus Urania of Phidias, and other images of male and female beauty or grandeur, wrought by sculptors who appeared never to have debased their souls by the sight of any meaner forms than those of gods or godlike mortals.
Songs of joy succeeded weeping (for Tamuz), the whole assembly singing hymns: "Adonis is returned to life, Urania weeps no more, he has ascended to heaven, he will soon return to earth and banish hence all crimes and miseries forever." This scene, it will be remembered, was presented 500 years prior to the birth of Christ.
From mortal woman thou may’st know full well, O poet, that dost deem the fair and tall Urania of her ways not mutable, When things shall thee befall What thou art toilèd in her sweet, wild spell.
Then the old tale has to be repeated of fair Urania and the coarse Polyhymnia, who must be indulged sparingly, just as in my own art of medicine care must be taken that the taste of the epicure be gratified without inflicting upon him the attendant penalty of disease.
Quotes with URANIA (3)
I like eggs and bacon,” George tells me. “But” — his face clouds — “do you know that bacon is” — tears leap to his eyes — “Wilbur?” Mrs. Garrett sits down next to him immediately. “George, we’ve been through this. Remember? Wilbur did not get made into bacon.” “That’s right.” I bend down too as wetness overflows George’s lashes. “Charlotte the spider saved him. He lived a long and happy life — with Charlotte’s daughters, um, Nelly and Urania and — ” “Joy,” Mrs. Garrett conclu…
As to our going on together as we were going, in a sort of friendly way, the people round us would have made it unable to continue. Their views of the relations of man and woman are limited, as is proved by their expelling me from the school. Their philosophy only recognizes relations based on animal desire. The wide field of strong attachment where desire plays, at least, only a secondary part, is ignored by them — the part of — who is it? — Venus Urania.
Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the Devouring Void for the Seminal Light. Earthly Women and the Muses are ancient, sworn enemies. The battlefield is the Creative Male. On the one side is the encampment of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus located in his Heart and in his Groin. On the other is the Bastion of Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, in his Brain and in his…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 98 times in crossword archives (1947–2023).