Minos
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Historians see in the myth a distant memory of the earlier civilization on Crete and use the term Minoan, derived from Minos, to describe it.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
She wants justice and vengeance on Minos, but she’s so smart she can’t help but solve whatever puzzle is in front of her.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
“We’re not used to seeing business consultants brought into the process,” said Minos Mouzourakis of the Brussels-based European Council on Refugees and Exiles.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2017
When the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans discovered the 4,000-year-old Palace of Minos on Crete in 1900, he saw the vestiges of a long-lost civilization whose artefacts set it apart from later Bronze-Age Greeks.
From Scientific American ● May 15, 2013
Nor was he the angry loner who’d followed the ghost of Minos through the Labyrinth.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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