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
Libor was born in 1969 to Minos Zombanakis, a Greek banker.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2022
“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
As they went on they came to the solemn place in which Minos, Europa’s son, the inflexible judge of the dead, was passing the final sentence on the souls before him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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