Definitions for ISIS

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ISIS I·sis

Spelling: [ahy-sis]

IPA: /ˈaɪ sɪs/

Isis is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in ISIS (iiss).

Definitions for ISIS

noun

1. a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
2. Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria): a radical Sunni Muslim organization whose aim is to restore an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the region encompassing Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, and southeastern Turkey.

Origin of ISIS

Latin Greek Îsis Egyptian 'st

Examples for ISIS

“We quietly did,” Reed previously told The Daily Beast of removing Isis.

The religion of Isis did not gain a hold on the soul by its dogmatism.

But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an Isis connection.

But there is no consensus about what the attrition of Isis looks like.

Breaking the will of Isis, the military argues, is not a statistic.

The 'chants of Isis' (Laws), we might think, would have been barbarous in an Athenian ear.

The worship of Isis was really only an exalted type of moon worship.

Come, Clara; I want to explore the penetralia of this temple of Isis.'

Isis bequeathed her veil of old To modern daughters of the Nile.

“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to Isis, Bolger said.