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Graiae

Meaning of "Graiae" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRAIAE

ˈɡreɪiː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAIAE

noun
adjective
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exclamation
Graiae is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRAIAE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Graeae

In Greek mythology the Graeae (Gry-eye, gry-ee, gray-ee; English translation: "old women", "grey ones", or "grey witches"; alternatively spelled Graiai (Γραῖαι) and Graiae), also called the Grey Sisters, were three sisters in Greek mythology who shared one eye and one tooth among them. Their names were Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRAIAE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRAIAE

Graham Land · Graham´s law · Grahame · Graian Alps · Grail · grain · grain alcohol · grain elevator · grainage · graine · grainer · grainfield · Grainger

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRAIAE

amici curiae · amicus curiae · amor patriae · Cassiopeiae · differentiae · ecclesiae · exuviae · facetiae · feriae · fimbriae · lamiae · mediae · metacercariae · microfilariae · minutiae · petechiae · reliquiae · rickettsiae · teniae · tibiae

Synonyms and antonyms of Graiae in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Graiae
1,325 millions of speakers
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Grayas
570 millions of speakers
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Graiae
510 millions of speakers
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Graiae
380 millions of speakers
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Graiae
280 millions of speakers
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Graiae
278 millions of speakers
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Graiae
270 millions of speakers
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গ্রাহাম
260 millions of speakers
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Graiae
220 millions of speakers
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Grahame
190 millions of speakers
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Graiae
180 millions of speakers
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Graiae
130 millions of speakers
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Graiae
85 millions of speakers
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Grahame
85 millions of speakers
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Graiae
80 millions of speakers
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Grahame
75 millions of speakers
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Grahame
75 millions of speakers
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Grahame
70 millions of speakers
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Graiae
65 millions of speakers
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Graiae
50 millions of speakers
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Graiae
40 millions of speakers
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Graiae
30 millions of speakers
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Graiae
15 millions of speakers
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Graiae
14 millions of speakers
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Graiae
10 millions of speakers
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Graiae
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Graiae

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAIAE»

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Ioannae Graiae litterae ad H. Bullingerum, nebst deutscher ...
Jane Grey (lady.) »seeg*> 33 <*as*w circumstances in which these letters , but principally the first , have been written. These letters have been partially edited at different periods in Switzerland , and complete in : Epistolae ab Ecclesiae ...
Jane Grey (lady.), 1840
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Greek and Egyptian Mythologies
THE. GORGONS. The three Gorgons, daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, who were marine deities, lived in the far west, beyond Oceanus and the Hesperides and beyond their sisters, the Graiae, who guarded the entrance to their country.
Yves Bonnefoy, 1992
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Herald
The Graiae had looked the same way for centuries, long before I was born, and even long before Zeus was born. They weren't really women, but they appeared that way—very old women clad in faded rags, their skin even more gray and aged ...
N. F. Houck, 2006
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Opuscula Tria de Deo Quoad Opera Praedestinationis, ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Laurentius Cardinalis Brancati, 2012
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Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies
Below Study for Perseus and the Graiae by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1 833- 1 898). The three Graiae or "gray ones" were sisters. They were guardians of the Gorgons. Gray-haired from birth, the siblings were Deino ("dread"), Enyo ("horror" ), ...
Struik Publishers, Janet Parker, Alice Mills, Julie Stanton, 2007
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The Disability Studies Reader
In the hall of mirrors that is world mythology, there are none more ghastly, more disturbing to the eye, than the three Graiae, sisters of Medusa—whose own ghastliness turns onlookers to stone. Possessed of a single eye and six empty eye ...
Lennard J. Davis, 2006
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Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology
The Graiae are exemplary in this respect. Like the Cyclopean triad in He- siod ( Theog. 149: Brontes, Steropes, Arges), the Graiae also come in threes ( Pemphredo, Dino, Enyo: ibid., 270-73). These gray old ladies share a single eye in their ...
A. David Napier, 1996
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The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability
He found Medusa by stealing the one eye and one tooth shared by the Graiae and withholding these items until the Graiae agreed to help him. Perseus killed Medusa by decapitating her while looking into his brightly polished shield, which  ...
David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, 1997
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Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon
Under the direction of Hermes and the goddess Athena, Perseus began his quest by first making an expedition to visit the Graiae. The Graiae were three sisters named Enyo, Pemphredo, and Dino. They were the daughters of Ketos the sea ...
Stephen R Wilk, 2000
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Astronomicon
... aequis et uelut hospitio mundi commercia iungunt conceduntque suas partis retinentibus astris. quam partem Graiae dixere decanica gentes. ut optima lectio maiore librorum auctoritate stabilita sordeie debeat, quam insuper confirmant Sen.
Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAIAE»

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Empire and elephants: Tristram Hunt on how the Victorians sculpted …
At the other end of the aesthetic spectrum is Edward Burne-Jones's Perseus and the Graiae (1877). Ordered by the Tory politician Lord Balfour ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
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