Minos
['mainɔs]
Definition
(noun.) son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld.
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Definition
(n.) A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
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Examples
- For sensibility and genius, with all their tenderness and temerity, I felt somehow that Madame would be the right sort of Minos in petticoats. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Lydian dynasty seems to have been a trading dynasty of the type of Minos in Crete, with a banking and financial development. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He entered the Labyrinth (which may have been the Cnossos Palace) by the aid of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, and slew the Minotaur. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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