Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek myth, a goddess personifying prudence, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and first wife of Zeus.
- n. The ninth of the planetoids in the order of discovery, first observed by Graham at Markree, Ireland, in April, 1848.
- n. A genus of crustaceans.
- n. A genus of mollusks.
Wiktionary
- n. A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent. Often uncapitalized.
- n. practical intelligence; street smarts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry
Etymologies
- From Greek (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group.”
“Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's Bay”
“Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's”
“It may be a corruption of Mahomet "Mohammed", or even a combination of two greek words, baphe and metis, meaning 'absorption of knowledge'.”
“Only the uncovered CFL registered on the card, a 1″. metis Says:”
ArmorLite: A CFL Bulb Without The Risk of Toxic Mercury Exposure | Inhabitat
“How does the signal get back fro my computer to the lamp though? metis Says:”
Scientists Find Way to Turn LED Lights Into Wireless Internet Source | Inhabitat
“AT 1: 44 Begley starts aggressively pointing and figeting in his chair while arguing the metis of a climate scientists vs a physist who the host referenced.”
“Mekala name of the goddess of the sea metis term of the colonial period used to refer to children of mixed parentage wherein one parent was European mise en valeur term used to legitimate the French colonial presence mission civilisatrice the perceived responsibility countries of the French in modernizing the and peoples it colonized mit neary”
“My understanding is that the Louisiana Creole people have a long history of existing between black and white, the way mestizo and metis people have existed between Native American and white in various societies.”
“Indeed, newspaper debates, conferences and TV shows have been dedicated to the question: "Is Obama really black -- or is he metis?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘metis’.
-
Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
-
250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
venturi, aesir, affenpinscher, rottweiler, amanuensis, balletomane, hansard, sangfroid, yukata, capriccio, cuisse, heriot and 237 more...
-
Words I will probably never use
décolleté, pendragon, amerce, viviparous, dragoon, brigand, outlaw, outlawry, lugubrious, boor, contretemps, decrepit and 151 more...
-
ephemerides
being words related to astronomy, stellar cartography, and the music of the spheres, including names of planets, stars and constellations
ephemerides, ascension, declination, apogee, planet, star, constellation, galaxy, system, syzygy, ecliptic, sun and 202 more...
-
many moons ago...
luna, phobos, deimos, metis, adrastea, amalthea, thebe, io, europa, ganymede, callisto, themisto and 140 more...
-
polytheism
goddesses, minor deities, sprites, nymphs, mythic things that are meaningful to me.
persephone, orpheus, croesus, lakshmi, nut, clotho, lachesis, atropo, nereids, pleiades, saraswati, penelope and 10 more...
-
Greek Gods and Titans
Greek and roman names of gods, titans, heroes, etc
gaea, uranus, cronus, rhea, oceanus, tethys, hyperion, mnemosyne, themis, iapetus, coeus, crius and 67 more...
-
mythic: Greece
eos, ares, zeus, uranus, urania, tyche, triton, titan, tisiphone, thetis, theseus, themis and 73 more...
-
Fly-Me to the Moons
The 49 so-far-named moons of Jupiter.
metis, andrastea, amalthea, thebe, io, europa, ganymede, callisto, themisto, leda, himalia, lysithea and 37 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for metis.
john "Usually translated, inadequately, as "cunning," metis is better understood as the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at a similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances."
- James C. Scott, "Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" Jan 5, 2008
john "In Greek mythology, Metis was of the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid, in the sense that Metis was born of Oceanus and Tethys, of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings. Metis was the first great spouse of Zeus, indeed his equal (Hesiod, Theogony 896) and the mother of Athena, the goddess of the arts and wisdom. By the era of Greek philosophy Metis had become the goddess of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning" and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the "royal metis" of Zeus. The Stoic commentators allegorized Metis as the embodiment of "wisdom" or "wise counsel", in which form she was inherited by the Renaissance."
- Wikipedia Jan 5, 2008