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Arete   Listen
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Arete  n.  (Geog.) An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Arete" Quotes from Famous Books



... her mother Arete, after one of these little outbreaks, "that you would do it yourself. I am sure you could do it beautifully if you would only give your mind ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler

... Teleia malista arete, hoti tes teleias aretes chresis esti.] Ethic. ad Nicomach. l. ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone

... Daybreak on Boundary Bay The Last Arete The Great Divide Above the Clouds Winter Sunset in the Cascade Range Beside the Ocstall Jansen's Curse The Survey Cook A Raid on the Seal Rookeries The Coast of British Columbia Vancouver ...
— The Last West and Paolo's Virginia • G. B. Warren

... ton anthropon dei]: Pythagoras quoted by Clement. Cf. Plotinus, Enn. vi. 9. I, [Greek: kai hugieia de, hotan eis hen syntachthe to soma, kai kallos hotan he tou henos ta moria katasche physis, kai arete de psyches hotan eis hen ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge

... hastened through the city. To the palace of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, she went. Within the palace she found Arete, the queen. And Arete was sitting by her hearth, ...
— The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles • Padraic Colum



Words linked to "Arete" :   ridge, ridgeline



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