Crossword clues for nestor
nestor
- Trojan War adviser
- Trojan War wise man
- Trojan War counselor
- One of the Greeks at Troy
- Carbonell who plays Dr. Richard Alpert on "Lost"
- Wise old counselor
- Wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy
- Wise "Iliad" character
- Trojan wise man
- Trojan sage
- Man of wisdom
- Husband of Anaxibia in Greek mythology
- Hall of Fame umpire Chylak
- Elder statesman of the "Iliad"
- Elder counselor
- Argonaut known for wise counsel
- Ancient eponymous advisor
- Adviser in the Iliad
- "Tintin" butler
- "Lost" actor Carbonell
- "Iliad" wise man
- "Iliad" advisor
- "Iliad" adviser
- ''Iliad'' advisor
- Adviser of the Greeks at Troy
- Counselor at Troy
- Trojan War figure
- Counselor to the Greeks at Troy
- Trojan War sage
- Wise old Greek
- Sage of Greek myth
- A genus of Psittacidae
- (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy
- Wise old man in the Trojan War
- Oldest Greek in the Trojan War
- Legendary mentor
- Wise man of the "Iliad"
- Patriarchal type
- Ancient wise man
- King who counseled Agamemnon
- Wise counselor
- Grand old man
- Wise elder
- Wise Greek
- King of Pylos
- Regularly sneers at poor old counsellor
- Wise one
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nestor \Nes"tor\, prop. n. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of parrots with gray heads, of New Zealand and Papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name for "old king renowned for wise counsel," 1580s, from Greek, name of the aged and wise hero in the "Iliad," king of Pylus, who outlived three generations. Klein says the name is literally "one who blesses," and is related to nostimos "blessed;" Watkins connects it with the root of the first element in nostalgia.
Wikipedia
Néstor is the Spanish-language version of the general European name Nestor.
Category:Spanish masculine given names
The genus Nestor is one of two genera of the parrot family Nestoridae. Together with the kakapo in the family Strigopidae, they form the parrot superfamily Strigopoidea. The genus Nestor contains two extant parrot species from New Zealand and two extinct species from Norfolk Island and Chatham Island, New Zealand, respectively. All species are large stocky birds with short squarish tails. A defining characteristic of the genus is the tongue, which is tipped with a hair-like fringe. The superficial resemblance of this tongue to that of lorikeets has led some taxonomists to consider the two groups closely related, but DNA evidence shows they are not.
In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia (, Nestōr Gerēnios) was the son of Neleus and Chloris and the King of Pylos. He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's siblings. His wife was either Eurydice or Anaxibia; their children included Peisistratus, Thrasymedes, Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus (son of Nestor), Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, and Antilochus.
Nestor is a Patience game where the object is the removal of pairs.
Nestor is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is the long-suffering butler of Marlinspike Hall.
Nestor is the epitome of a butler (or, in French, majordome) of French society. Noble, loyal, always the domestic servant, Nestor serves his master Captain Haddock and any house guests such as Tintin, Professor Calculus, or Bianca Castafiore.
Nestor is a given name, often claimed to be of Greek origin. In Greek mythology it comes from that of the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris. The Greek derivation is from a combination of "νέομαι" [neomai] - "go back", and "νόστος" [nostos] - "one who returns from travels".
Another theory makes derivation from Hebrew by combination of "נֵס" [nes] - "miracle", and "תּוֹרָה" [tora] - Torah. It is a well used phrase in religious text of Jewish tradition.
Nestor is, apart from a given name, also found as a surname borne by Irish and Estonians.
In Ireland, it was derived as a shortened form of Mac Girr an Adhastair, meaning son of the short man of the bridle. It was sometimes shortened to Mac an Adhastair. The surname is most common in County Galway and County Clare. The clan were natives of Corcomroe in the latter county, which in the Middle Ages formed the north-westernmost territory of the kingdom of Thomond. The Mac Girr an Adhastair were associated with the local lords, the Ó Lochlainn family.
NESTOR was a family of compatible, tactical, wideband secure voice systems developed by the U.S. National Security Agency and widely deployed during the Vietnam War. NESTOR consists of three systems. The KY-8 was used in vehicular and afloat applications; the KY-28 was the airborne version: and the KY-38 was the portable or man-pack model. About 30,000 NESTOR equipments were produced prior to their replacement by the VINSON secure voice family.
Keying was accomplished by setting each switch in a matrix of switches to one of several positions. This was done using a separate mechanical key loader (KYK-28) that had a matching matrix of pins that could be set to different heights as instructed by a key list. The key loader was pushed into a matrix of holes, one hole for each switch. The loader also had two larger index pins that also cocked a spring that would return each switch to their initial position when the door covering the hole matrix was reopened, zeroizing the equipment.
Usage examples of "nestor".
He is a formidable warrior, formidable enough so that in Book 7 no Achaean volunteers to face him in single combat until they are tongue-lashed by Menelaus and then by Nestor.
Nestor Hay knew everybody in the village round about, their fathers and grandfathers, their politics and religious opinions, and whether they were new folk or ancient inhabitants--an encyclopaedic knowledge not written, an Homeric memory.
Out they rushed, the sentries in armor, forming under the son of Nestor, captain Thrasymedes, under Ascalaphus, Ialmenus, sons of Ares, under Meriones, Aphareus and Deipyrus, under the son of Creon, trusty Lycomedes.
Lord Geoffery of Helmscarp, Lord Nestor of Laverin, Lord Tavis of Brengard, and TradeGuildsmen Osten Deveral, Jerard Stonesmith, Petar Ringwright, and Igan Horstfel.
Achaean chariots near Diomedes and Nestor explode in a tumble of horseflesh and flying bodies.
He was the Nestor of the occasion, and strove heartily to compose all quarrels, and so to arrange matters that a wholesome, moderately Liberal Ministry might be again installed for the good of the country and the comfort of all true Whigs.
I found two Nestor ends in the tray this morning, so you must have been smokin' last night, sir.
Simon and Schuster Contents PREFACE 1 The Transformation of Dona Soledad 2 The Little Sisters 3 La Gorda 4 The Genaros 5 The Art of Dreaming 6 The Second Attention Preface A flat, barren mountaintop on the western slopes of the Sierra Madre in central Mexico was the setting for my final meeting with don Juan and don Genaro and their other two appren- tices, Pablito and Nestor.
I fig- ured that they must have been in their early twenties when I had first met them, although Pablito and Nestor always re- fused to talk about their ages.
Round-faced, red-haired Menelaus was there, whose cuckolding by Paris had provided the pretext for the war, and wily Odysseus, and the aged and rambling Nestor, whose head trembled incessantly.
Despite what Brad Berea said about him now, then there had been fire in Nestor.
Once, without thinking, he had told Brad Berea, 'I am the Lord Nestor.
With the thought of her, and a little bit of effort on his part (elbow grease was the way he thought of it), Jack Nestor finally began to relax.
Nestor was found emulsified and smeared on the ceiling of a public restroom in a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it pains me to say that his death was celebrated by the usual environmentalist extremists who think trees are good.
Then, except for Nestor and Wratha themselves, and their first lieutenants, the remaining flyers landed their riders without touching down, and lifted off with empty saddles.