(a.) Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.
(n.) A native or citizen of Athens.
Example Sentences:
(1) What she'd actually done was ram a friendly ship (all hands lost) to put off the Athenian vessel that was advancing her way.
(2) The temple itself was built in the 5th century BC by the city-state of Athens for Athena, its patron goddess, and it housed the tribute the Athenians received from the other city-states subject to them: hardly a symbol of Greek democracy or fellow-feeling.
(3) Earlier this year Athenian newspapers were full of reports of Germans "fearing for their lives" if they visited Greece.
(4) But while some may view that as poor remuneration for 37 years of welding carriages in an Athenian factory, Rallakis counts himself lucky.
(5) The Mytilenian debate of 427BC is perhaps one of the ancient world’s best examples of an argument with something vital at stake: following an unsuccessful insurrection in the city of Mytilene, the Athenians had voted to put to death not only the uprising’s leaders, but all Mytilenian men, and to enslave its women and children.
(6) From the Garden of Eden, to the Exodus, Athenian democracy, the Roman Senate, Magna Carta, the glorious revolution and American independence, the story of our civilisation has been the story of freedom and our struggles to achieve it.
(7) A common-source epidemic of hepatitis A occurred in an Athenian institution boarding 38 children (mean age 4.8 years).
(8) But I won't here: I write this as an Athenian, not a journalist.
(9) But with joblessness at an all time high, Athenians, increasingly, are choosing to vote with their feet.
(10) And five blocks away from Syntagma I had a quiet chat with British colleagues and fellow Athenians.
(11) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
(12) Around” is the operative word, because the Greeks have gone to great lengths to unite their Athenian antiquities with a pedestrian path.
(13) Somehow, he could make Connemara and Leeds sound Athenian.
(14) The current political scene might have been radically different if Remain had had Diodotus on its side: if you could persuade an assembly of Athenians bent on retribution to spare the lives of a group of rebels, then you could probably best Boris Johnson.
(15) Last week, in a glimpse of what the future might bring, elderly Athenians stood for hours outside banks as the government struggled to pay pensions.
(16) In the research programme of the Department of Microbiology of the Athens University the nature of the mycological flora of the Athenian air was studied.
(17) The first surviving text on training cavalry mounts is by the Athenian General Xenophon (400 BC) who reveals a sensitive understanding of the horse.
(18) "Two and a half thousand years ago," it reads, "Socrates declared that he was not an Athenian or a Greek but a simple citizen of the world.
(19) Within the 6-year period a substantial increase in the prevalence of symptoms of depression in all geographic areas was observed, with the Athenian respondents expressing a higher number of symptoms of depression than their counterparts from the other areas.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lysistrata Haranguing the Athenian Women, by Aubrey Beardsley.
Goddess
Definition:
(n.) A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
(n.) A woman of superior charms or excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pony-tailed local businessman, Hall rose to prominence during the referendum campaign when he used a reconditioned Green Goddess fire engine to distribute pro-independence literature.
(2) "We are not victims, we are adventurous sex goddesses!"
(3) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(4) The goddess Diana and her nymphs are bathing in a woodland pool when the hunter Actaeon chances by.
(5) Crowley, adds Breeze, “was many things and excelled at most: a record-setting mountaineer, a competition-level chess player, the best metrical poet of his generation in the estimation of some, a literary critic of international reputation, an innovative editor and book designer, a pioneer in the use of entheogens, and a lion of sexual liberation – he was above all a lover, of men, women, gods, goddesses and himself”.
(6) The temple itself was built in the 5th century BC by the city-state of Athens for Athena, its patron goddess, and it housed the tribute the Athenians received from the other city-states subject to them: hardly a symbol of Greek democracy or fellow-feeling.
(7) Such joie de vivre, coupled with such accomplishment, makes her a goddess.
(8) Placed in the foundation of the temple of the fertility goddess, its 21 lines call on those who find the temple to honor the king's name.
(9) "This is my England," Clifford said, vibrating with the bitch-goddess Success, as the gamekeeper tended his chicks.
(10) In the past three weeks alone she has performed on The Late Show With David Letterman , given a MOMA benefit, staged by Chanel and attended by David Bowie in honour of Tilda Swinton ("a real hero of mine," she tells me, " the woman is a goddess"), topped Time magazine's list of the world's most influential teenagers and signed a $2.5m publishing deal .
(11) I’m very proud of them.” Sitting in his chambers between a bust of Winston Churchill and a statuette of the Goddess of Democracy, the symbol of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Lee remembers strolling through the umbrella movement’s main camp, a sprawl of tents and political debate, three days before police finally cleared it, in December 2015.
(12) The British public is accustomed to the sight of celebrity chefs competing for column inches, TV airtime and prime bookshelf space, but yesterday new battlelines were drawn as domestic goddess Nigella Lawson launched her iPhone app, putting her in direct competition with Jamie Oliver.
(13) As a priority it will deal with the deployment of army-staffed Green Goddess fire engines.
(14) Other photographers in the show include Eugene von Bruenchenhein, who was inspired by wartime images of Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable to take thousands of photographs of his wife in poses from domestic goddess to Hollywood pin-up; and Lee Godie, who lived homeless on the streets of Chicago and used photo booths to capture herself in almost endlessly different guises.
(15) There are chapters – when one of the Pleiades comes to earth or Mary Poppins is hailed as a goddess at the zoo – which sound as if they could have been written by the theosophist Madame Blavatsky on a particularly dotty day.
(16) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
(17) It offers a rare chance to see films from Shanghai's 1930s golden age: classics such as 1948's Spring In a Small Town , which has been compared with the works of Ozu and Antonioni, or the 1934 silent movie The Goddess , starring screen heroine Ruan Lingyu – both of which have recently been restored and received like long-lost relatives by Chinese audiences.
(18) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(19) His painting of a nude Hindu goddess, Saraswati, became the target of protests in 1996.
(20) All photos: City of Errors Athens got its name from Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, which is itself a contradiction.