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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JANUS-FACED

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Janus-Faced is an adjective.
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WHAT DOES JANUS-FACED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Janus-faced

Janus

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, and thereby of gates, doors, passages, endings and time. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. The Romans named the month of January in his honor. Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The doors of his temple were open in time of war, and closed to mark the peace. As a god of transitions, he had functions pertaining to birth and to journeys and exchange, and in his association with Portunus, a similar harbor and gateway god, he was concerned with travelling, trading and shipping. Janus had no flamen or specialized priest assigned to him, but the King of the Sacred Rites himself carried out his ceremonies. Janus had a ubiquitous presence in religious ceremonies throughout the year, and was ritually invoked at the beginning of each one, regardless of the main deity honored on any particular occasion. The ancient Greeks had no equivalent to Janus, whom the Romans claimed as distinctively their own.

Definition of Janus-faced in the English dictionary

The definition of Janus-faced in the dictionary is two-faced; hypocritical; deceitful.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE JANUS-FACED

baby-faced
barefaced
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defaced
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fresh-faced
full-faced
hard-faced
melamine-faced
open-faced
pale-faced
po-faced
poker-faced
red-faced
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straight-faced
two-faced
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Synonyms and antonyms of Janus-faced in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Janus-faced» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JANUS-FACED

Find out the translation of Janus-faced to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Janus-faced from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Janus-faced» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

二心
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

- Janus cara
570 millions of speakers

English

Janus-faced
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जानूस का सामना करना पड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يانوس الوجه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Двуликий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Janus -faced
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জানুস মুখবিশিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Janus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Janus berhadapan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Janus -faced
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヤヌスの顔を
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

야누스 얼굴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Janus-ngadhepi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Janus phải đối mặt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜானுசாக முகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जानस-चेहर्याचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İkiyüzlü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Giano bifronte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Janus -faced
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дволикий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Janus - cu care se confruntă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Janus -που αντιμετωπίζουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Janus - gesig gestaar
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Janus -faced
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Janus -ansikt
5 millions of speakers

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The term «Janus-faced» is normally little used and occupies the 129.586 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Janus-faced

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JANUS-FACED»

Discover the use of Janus-faced in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Janus-faced and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rights in Exile: Janus-faced Humanitarianism
But it is the refugees themselves who could benefit the most if these actors absorb its lessons and apply them. Guglielmo Verdirameis a Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
Guglielmo Verdirame, Barbara E. Harrell-Bond, 2005
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Janus-Faced Justice: Political Criminals in Imperial Japan
In addition to evaluation by these internal standards, Mitchell devotes his final chapter to a very useful comparison with the situation in Europe during the same period.".
Richard H. Mitchell, 1992
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Emerging Trends and Issues in Management Consulting: ...
The book is divided into three sections thatexplore emerging issues and challenges in the management consulting industry, trends and techniques in management consulting interventions, and reflections on consulting and the consulting process ...
Anthony F. Buono, 2009
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Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism
Focusing on the vexed friendship between Hart Crane and Allen Tate, this book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a process in which sexual identities, poetic ...
Langdon Hammer, 1993
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Language and Ideology in the Media - Germany’s Janus-Faced ...
Sener Saltürk. Sener Saltürk Language and Ideology in the Media - Germany's Janus-Faced Weekly DER SPIEGEL Essay English YOUR KNOWLEDGE HAS VALUE - We will publish your bachelor's. Front Cover.
Sener Saltürk, 2012
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Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom
Memoir, then, is Janus-faced: looking toward the intimacy of self and toward the publicness of community. Vivid and evocative though their writing might be, many students entering my class have initial difficulty shuttling between the apparently  ...
Kristie S. Fleckenstein, 2009
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
STS's Janus-faced Antirealism: Relativism versus Constructivism So far I have followed the standard philosophical practice of referring to STS's underlying philosophy as relativism. Another term — constructivism — is increasingly used in the ...
Steve Fuller, 2006
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Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt: New Essays on the Restored Text
ROBERT H. ELIAS IN PRESENTING DREISER WITH THE American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit in 1944, Professor Chauncey B. Tinker began his citation with the explanation that the Academy was "Janus-faced, looking ...
James L. W. West, 1995
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Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada
On the other hand, Anderson's theory does help us to understand the ways in which the Janus-faced“ nature of the nation is achieved. The Janus-faced nature of the nation is its often two-sided, contradictory, conflictual and unclear articulation ...
Rinaldo Walcott, 2003
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China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of ...
The. Janus-Faced. Role. of. the. Business. Elite. in. Chinese. History. China's post -Mao business elite is part of a contemporary international phenomenon — the emergence of an international managerial bourgeoisie — but it also has its own ...
Margaret M. Pearson, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JANUS-FACED»

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True Story | Film reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
Opposites attract, or would if Goold and David Kajganich's script didn't belabour the notion of the men as Janus-faced sides of an invisible ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
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BJP and the Kashmir imbroglio
The UPA government's Janus-faced stance mentioned below is a case in point. We had been telling Pakistan and the rest of the world that ... «Merinews, Jul 15»
3
J Brooks Spector
... discovery that in the hand of his creator, Atticus Finch is a Janus-faced man, who, in his old age might well have been a vociferous supporter ... «Daily Maverick, Jul 15»
4
Europe's Neighbourhood: Crisis as the New Normal
The exposure by the Arab Spring of this Janus-faced approach produced some uncharacteristic remorse – but any behaviour change was as ... «ISN, Jul 15»
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John Le Carre and the Last of Empire
This is a particularly British sensibility, and it is Janus-faced, seemingly contradictory in a number of ways. It is nostalgic for empire yet radical in ... «Breaking Israel News, Jul 15»
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Archipelago of Souls
The novel proceeds in a Janus-faced manner. In the postwar present of the late 1940s we follow Wes as he chops wood and reads the Stoic ... «The Saturday Paper, Jul 15»
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10 of the best sour beers in the UK
The result is a Janus-faced beer — it looks like a stout, but has an earthy, acidic note on the nose, while on the palate it's bittersweet, delicately ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Economic gains versus strategic risks stoke our China tensions
... time it will be Janus-faced, reflecting its own ambivalence — sometimes the responsible stakeholder, sometimes overthrowing the status quo. «The Australian, Jun 15»
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Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (3)
... seem to point to a personalized motif that has suddenly awakened to a complexed, Janus-faced, and inhuman world born of multiple faces. «Vibe Ghana, Jun 15»
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What Vice Gets Wrong About 'Chiraq'—and Chicago
What I want to do is—not necessarily negate isolation altogether, but look at it as a Janus-faced thing, where there's two sides to it. How does ... «Chicagomag.com, Jun 15»

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