Crossword clues for naos
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Naos \Na"os\ (n[=a]"[o^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. nao`s a temple, the cella.] (Arch.) A term used by modern arch[ae]ologists instead of cella. See Cella.
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) The inner part of a Greek temple; it contained a statue of the appropriate deity surrounded by a colonnaded portico; it gave rise to the Roman cella
Wikipedia
Naos may refer to:
- Naos (shrine), in Egyptology, that which is hidden and unknown inside the inner sanctum of a temple, but also to little boxlike shrines, carried by statues
- In classical architecture, the cella, i.e. the inner chamber of a temple which houses a cult figure
- Another name for the star Zeta Puppis
- Bislama for Tahitian apple
- An Italian furniture brand qualified to use the Made in Italy merchandise mark
The naos is a symbol used in ancient Egypt. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, two common versions exist of the character translated as "naos": the older one dating to the Old Kingdom era, and a common rectangular form from the New Kingdom and later.
Usage examples of "naos".
Rational men knew that Divine Amar had, in his infinite wisdom, chosen Adnari Estarg to succeed Holy Parok VII as Naos of all the world, but the heretics of the south turned away and, without consultation of any kind, they elevated a little-known Oran named Udar to the holy throne of the Naos.
Udar to the position of Naos took less than half an hour, and the acceptance speech of Naos Udar IV took even less time.
Tambem vos vay hum pedaco de padram que se tirou dua gramde carta dum piloto de jaoa, aquall tinha ho cabo de booa esperamca, portugall e a terra de brasyll, ho mar rroxo e ho mar da persia, as ilhas de crauo, a navegacam dos chins e gores, com suas lynhas e caminhos dercytos por omde as naos hiam, e ho sertam.
Their smoky red light sent long shadows weaving across the flaking frescoes of the naos and put red sparks in the glossy black circle of the shrine.
He was lying on the broken tiles of the naos, before the black disc of the shrine.
It said, then turned and slowly went back up the steps into the Naos, vanishing into the shadows.
For most of its short year the moon known as Naos III was a frigid little orb with days that never seemed to end.
Known as the Naos sharptooth, the fish spawned only in the coldest months, was shipped offworld, flash-frozen, and sold at exorbitant prices in eateries from Mon Calamari to Corellia.
Still, few locals banked enough credits to buy passage off Naos III, preferring instead to return their meager earnings to Naos III Mercantile, which oversaw the sharptooth industry and owned nearly every store, hotel, gambling parlor, and cantina.
The dispirited humanoids who had colonized the moon had never bothered to award a name to their principal population center, so it, too, was known as Naos III.
A few wealthy sportfishers arrived each year, but Naos III was simply too remote and too lacking in infrastructure to support a tourist trade.
With snow falling harder in Naos III, the two stopped to get their bearings.
Instead of ending up in the basement of the cantina, the poles ran completely through the hill on which that portion of Naos III had been built, all the way to the river itself.
It was entirely possible, considering how wrong things had gone on Naos III.