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Greek goddess of soil
Answer for the clue "Greek goddess of soil ", 7 letters:
demeter
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goddess of agriculture, mother of Persephone, from Greek Demeter ; the second element generally given as mater (see mother ); the first element possibly from da , Doric form of Greek ge "earth" (see Gaia ), but Liddell & Scott find this "improbable." The ...
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Demeter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christine Demeter (died 1973), murder victim Don Demeter , American baseball player George Demeter , author of Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure Peter Demeter , Christine Demeter's ...
Usage examples of demeter.
He was marrying Lady Demeter de Rougemount, a celebrated knockout of limitless fortune and imperial blood whom Richard knew and admired and had recently taken to thinking about every time he came.
Gower, married to Lady Demeter, and his mini-Nobel: the romping zeros of the annuity, granted for life, forever and ever and ever .
Lord Faro and Ibelin Belfortune from a session she herself had played on Demeter a few months before, whom she had salvaged from certain death because their templates were more interesting than her players had been capable of making them.
If that was true, if Ransome was back on the port nets, and with Customs-and-Intelligence still asking questions about the shipment from Demeter, it would be only too easy to track down what was really going on.
For Demeter once dwelt in that island, and taught the Titans to reap the ears of corn, all for the love of Macris.
THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER I DEMETER devastated our good land, In blackness for her daughter snatched below.
And slowly out of fields their fancy grazed, Among the droves, defiled a horse and mare: The wrecks of horse and mare: such ribs as view Seas that have struck brave ships ashore, while through Shoots the swift foamspit: bare They nodded, and Demeter on them gazed.
Ulysses, to betoken his madness, took his plough down to the shore and drew furrows in the sand--the sea that even Demeter, great goddess, could not sow nor bring to any fruition.
Everybody knew that he was going down to Byland Court to spend the weekend with Lady Demeter.
Demeter sighed and rummaged through a change purse full of breath mints, jiffy pots, and wildflower seeds, finally pulling out a coin.
Venator harked back: From Guthrie's rebellious exodus, unforeseeably, arose Demeter Mother.
To the sound of reedy pipes that echoed over the bog there glided silently and eerily a mixed throng of swaying figures, reeling through such a revel as the Sicilians may have danced to Demeter in the old days under the harvest moon beside the Cyane.
She cut the story of Demeter and the labor contract to its bare bones as she told it.
Demeter reached over and pressed a call button on the smoking stand beside the wingback.