Definitions for Minotaur

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Minotaur Min·o·taur

Spelling: [min-uh-tawr]

IPA: /ˈmɪn əˌtɔr/

Minotaur is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 407 anagrams from letters in Minotaur (aimnortu).

Definitions for Minotaur

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
2. any person or thing that devours or destroys.

Origin of Minotaur

Latin Mīnōtaurus Greek Mīnṓtauros, equivalent to Mī́nō(s) Minos + taúros bull

Examples for Minotaur

The Minotaur slain by Theseus had the body of a man and the head of a bull.

For five years, until 1870, he was in command of the Minotaur.

These were thrown as food to a terrible monster, the Minotaur.

Instead of a man skiing in one and a cowboy riding a bull in the other, the two actually represent the images of the Minotaur.

Was there ever seen such a fight of Theseus and the Minotaur!

So if the Minotaur persists in demanding the maiden, she must be thrown to him.

Like the Minotaur in his labyrinth, you set up a maze others must work through to get to the true you.

In this intricate puzzle of a building the Minotaur was confined.

Is there no resource but to cast this man also to the Minotaur?

In 1861, ships of the type of the Minotaur were built, armoured from stem to stern.