Crossword clues for moros
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moro \Mo"ro\ (m[=o]"r[-o]), prop. n.; pl. Moros (m[=o]"r[-o]s). [Sp., moor. See moor, n. and Moros.]
(Ethnol.) A member of any of the Moros, a group one of various tribes of the southern Phillippine Islands, mostly Malays adhering to Mohammedanism.
(Linguistics) Any of the languages of the Moro people, of the Austronesian language family.
Moros \Mo"ros\, n. pl.; sing. Moro. [Sp., pl. of Moro Moor.] (Ethnol.) The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.
Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, Moros or Morus (, "doom, fate") is the being of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate. He is one of the offspring of Nyx (Night), who had conceived him without male intervention, and brother of the Moirai (Fates). It was even proclaimed by the Fates that not even Zeus could question Moros (destiny), who like his mother, Nyx, was invisible and dark. To break with destiny was to reintroduce Chaos into the world. Even if Zeus issued a decree or made a promise he later regretted, he could not then change his decree because it was destiny. In which case, he was the only force that Zeus truly dreaded. Because of this, Moros was also considered to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. All of the major and minor gods that were not realated to him lived in fear of what Doom(Moros) could or would do to them. Aeschylus describes how Prometheus saved mankind from the misery of seeing their doom (Moros) with the gift of hope ( Elpis) that came from Pandora's Box. Moros' siblings Thanatos and Ker represented the physical aspects of death—Ker was the bringer of violent death and killing sickness, while Thanatos represented a peaceful, passing away.
Moros is the personification of impending doom and destruction in Greek mythology.
Moros may also refer to:
- Moros (Stargate), a character in the TV series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
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Moors in Spanish, applied by the Spanish to the Muslims they found in the Philippines
- Moros (Philippines)
- Moro National Liberation Front
- Moros y Cristianos, the Cuban version of beans and rice
- Moros, Spain, a municipality in the Spanish province of Zaragoza
- Moros, home planet of Keill Randor in the The Last Legionary series of young adult science fiction novels
- In the massively multiplayer online game EVE Online there is a class of dreadnought capital ship named after Moros.
- In the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft, there is a boss mob named after Moros. His name is Moroes, the Tower Steward of Karazhan.
- In the White Wolf RPG Mage: the Awakening, the Moros are a path of Mages dealing especially with Death and Matter.
- In the Persona 3 RPG, the character Jin can summon Moros as his Persona. In the game, Moros is represented by The Hermit Tarot card. The god is depicted as a robotic satellite.
- Darja Moros, a Russian actress.
- redirect Ancient characters in Stargate#Moros
Usage examples of "moros".
Wing Captain Moros exhaled, pinching the bridge of his nose with his index and forefinger.
Even before Moros entered into the Dark Queen's service, he had heard the stories of this soldier or that merchant who tried to get the better of gnomes, and whose body was later found in innumerable easy-to-carry pieces.
Word came for them to wait for the other parts of the army, but Moros always wanted to grab one more objective, one more chunk of land.
One of those structures was the inn that currently held Moros like a trap held a rabbit.
Only later, when he heard thunder from the far end of the valley, when he saw the blackened remains of the patrol come staggering back into camp, did Moros have the first inkling that there was trouble.
Now Moros spent his days lolling around here, in the common room, reviewing reports and sucking down the inn's prized ales during the day, consuming the top-shelf liquors in the evening.
And besides, with the innkeep gone, Moros would have to fetch his own ale.
As Moros and the dragon neared, he could hear the sound of gnomish industry.
At the time, Moros believed he had won his greatest victory without losing a man.
Instead, they complained about the amount of tribute and number of prisoners, the frequency of his reports and their content (when nothing happens, and you tell them nothing happens, they get peevish about the lack of progress, Moros mused sullenly).
He giggled again, and Moros was reminded of metal claws scratching on a chalkboard.
From the innkeep's face, Moros assumed that the fat human understood something of what the gnome was saying.
Involuntarily Moros looked toward the door, toward the stables that billeted Shalebreak.
Between him and Moros were the brawling man and gnome, and the scattered contents of the gnome's pockets—gears, bits of string, notepads with pages half-torn out, the mysterious rock, chewed-on pieces of chalk, and the insect-automaton.
As far as Moros could remember, this meant that the Plus-Gnomium was already caught in the reaction the gnome had described, the chain of events leading to an explosion.