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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Greek Mythology A king of Crete, the son of Zeus and Europa, who was made one of the three judges in the underworld after his death.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Greek mythology The mythical king of Crete and the son of Zeus and Europa.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Class. Myth.) A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek Μίνως (Mīnōs). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “There is a passage of Homer very pertinent to this purpose, in which he calls Minos [Greek text], which, as Plato interprets it, signifies THE DISCIPLE AND COMPANION”

    Essays and Miscellanies

  • “I called Minos at the DEA in Lafayette and told him to meet me there.”

    Simon & Schuster: Heaven’s Prisoners

  • “The maternal Minos is not to be appeased, and the appointed month of penance has duly to be endured: –”

    Maria Edgeworth

  • “The suggestion has been made, with great probability, that the name Minos is not so much the name of a single person as the title of a race of kings.”

    The Sea-Kings of Crete

  • “At noon I called Minos Dautrieve at the DEA in Lafayette.”

    Simon & Schuster: Heaven’s Prisoners

  • “I gassed up the truck at the dock, then as an afterthought I went inside the bait shop, sat at the wooden counter with a Dr Pepper, and called Minos P.”

    Simon & Schuster: Heaven’s Prisoners

  • ““If he comes around again, call Minos Dautrieve at the Drug Enforcement Administration or call me at this number.””

    Simon & Schuster: Heaven’s Prisoners

  • “Dr. Ellis noted that a similar experiment was reported by a collaboration known as Minos in 2007 on neutrinos created at Fermilab in Illinois and beamed through the Earth to the Soudan Mine in Minnesota.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “An earlier measurement of neutrino speeds was performed by a collaboration known as Minos, for”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “A shock went through me, such as Minos 'bull-mask had not struck into my flesh.”

    The King Must Die

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