Definition of Dindymene

1. Noun. Great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops.

Exact synonyms: Cybele, Great Mother, Magna Mater, Mater Turrita
Generic synonyms: Phrygian Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dindymene

Dime
Dimetane
Dimetapp
Dimitra
Dimitris
Dimitrovgrad
Dimmer's keratitis
Dimocarpus
Dimocarpus longan
Dimorphotheca
Din Land
Dina
Dinah
Dinajpur District
Dinarization
Dindymene (current term)
Dinesen
Dingle
Dinka
Dino Paul Crocetti
Dinocerata
Dinoflagellata
Dinornis giganteus
Dinornithidae
Dinornithiformes
Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix

Literary usage of Dindymene

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"3. a sanctuary of Mother Dindymene. A coin of Patrae (Fig. ... The central figure is probably the image of Mother Dindymene ; the other figures are probably ..."

2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"... and we find amongst them the blind genera Dindymene, ... The genus Dindymene (Corda)' belongs to the ..."

3. Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: With Some Account of Their by William John Hamilton (1842)
"... was Mount Dindymene. The latter states that this river rises from the sacred mountain ... while the river rises at the foot of Dindymene or Morad Dagh. ..."

4. Cyzicus: Being Some Account of the History and Antiquities of that City, and by Frederick William Hasluck (1910)
"The worship of Dindymene at ... and Dindymene, the latter especially after her connection with the Argonaut myth, ... This aspect of the Dindymene or ..."

5. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridæ in the Collection of by Arthur Gardiner Butler (1808)
"Papilio Dindymene, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. tab. 198. figs. F, G (1782). ... Dindymene, Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 365. n. 5 (1851). ..."

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