Crossword clues for cretan
cretan
- Canea native
- Minos, for one
- El Greco, for one
- Subject of King Minos
- Native of a Greek island
- Minos, e.g
- Like King Minos
- Like El Greco and the Minotaur
- King Minos subject
- Iraklion native
- Greek from Canea
- Epimenides, by birth
- El Greco, e.g
- Certain Greek islander
- Canea denizen
- Ancient Knossos denizen
- '90s Greek P.M. Constantine Mitsotakis, for one
- Canea resident
- El Greco, by birth
- King Minos, for one
- Like "Zorba the Greek" novelist Nikos Kazantzakis
- A native or inhabitant of Crete
- Native of Canea
- King Minos was one
- Greek islander
- Minos, e.g.
- Greek sailors dropping with effect of sun's rays
- Greek having drunk nectar goes into mysterious trance
- Chromium and bronze around east of Mediterranean island
- Of a Greek island, centre of the Minoan civilisation
- Portion of land missing a sign of sun for Mediterranean resident
- Islander certain to migrate, leaving island behind
- Certain Greek
- King Minos, e.g
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cretan \Cre"tan\ (kr[=e]"tan), a. Pertaining to Crete, or Candia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English Cretense (plural), from Latin Cretanus (singular); see Crete. They were proverbial in ancient times as liars; compare Greek kretismos "lying," literally "Cretan behavior."
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants. n. An inhabitant or a resident of Crete. n. The dialect of Greek spoken in Crete.
WordNet
Usage examples of "cretan".
Singer was generally to be found, where there was an outcrop of rock to provide some shelter from the wind, in the open space between the Cretan, Locrian and Achaian encampments.
Marcus Musurus, the chief associate of Aldus in the Aldine Press, was also a Cretan, and between him and Blastus existed the closest friendship.
The Game was based on the secrets of the LABYRINTH, originating within the Cretan labyrinth before its secrets were shared among the Bronze Age Greek and Anatolian worlds.
Cretan labyrinth before its secrets were shared among the Bronze Age Greek and Anatolian worlds.
They were the first Gods of the Cretans, and under other names, of the Armenians, as we learn from Berosus, and of Panchaia, an island South of Arabia, as we learn from Euhemerus.
Melicartus, the Hercules of the Phenicians and Cretans, was, properly, Melech-Carta, the Deity of the place.
He could see Philip and his Companion Cavalry charging on the right, coming abreast now of the marching regiments of Macedonian infantry, with their shields locked, their eighteen-foot, iron-pointed sarissas aimed at the enemy ranks, the Cretan archers behind them sending volley after volley of shafts into the sky to rain down on the Phocian centre.
Scores of beautiful vases of alabaster, breccia, marble, and soapstone, wrought in some cases to the thinness of a modern china cup, suggest at once the protodynastic Egyptian bowls of diorite and syenite, and show that if the Cretan took the idea from Egyptian models, he was not behind his master in the skill with which he carried it out.
Abraham Lincoln--the submarine hunt, the Torres Straits, the savages of Papua, the running ashore, the coral cemetery, the passage of Suez, the Island of Santorin, the Cretan diver, Vigo Bay, Atlantis, the iceberg, the South Pole, the imprisonment in the ice, the fight among the poulps, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and the horrible scene of the vessel sunk with all her crew.
A permanent guard was kept on the ships and checkpoints were maintained night and day on all roads leading from Aulis, manned by archers faithful to Odysseus or the Cretan Idomeneus, who had made themselves jointly responsible for security.
Briefly summarized, this novel tells the story of the revolt of 1889 by the suppressed Cretans against their Turkish oppressors, as well as a love intrigue in which the two Cretan hefoes, the captains Michales and Polyxigis, fight with each other and with the noble Turk Nun Bey about the same Circasfian woman.
Cretan ranks, and now, unveiled like the Christian women, helped to make cartridges in the churchyard in front of the church of Kasteli.
Truly the bodies of Cretans, strong though they are, do not come up to the strength of their souls, he thought.
I accuse God of not having given us Cretans bodies of steel with which to hold out for the hundred, two hundred, three hundred years until we have set Crete free.
At first the Cretans had supposed that smooth skin natural and were not angry.