Minotaur
['mainətɔ:]
Definition
(noun.) (Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain by Theseus.
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Definition
(n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
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Definition
n. the bull of Minos a fabulous monster half-man half-bull.
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Examples
- Daedalus never wound so inextricable an error round Minotaur, as madness has woven about his imprisoned reason. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- 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.
- You have been brought up in some of those horrible notions that choose the sweetest women to devour--like Minotaurs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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