Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek myth, a goddess personifying prudence, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and first wife of Zeus.
- noun The ninth of the planetoids in the order of discovery, first observed by Graham at Markree, Ireland, in April, 1848.
- noun A genus of crustaceans.
- noun A genus of mollusks.
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- noun practical
intelligence ;street smarts . - noun A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent. Often uncapitalized.
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- noun a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry
Etymologies
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Examples
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Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group.
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Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group.
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Transgender men, known as metis or eunuchs, were often robbed, beaten and sometimes raped at Maoist checkpoints, and again at government checkpoints, said Pant, head of the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights group.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's
The Translation of a Savage, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's Bay
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's Bay
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897
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It may be a corruption of Mahomet "Mohammed", or even a combination of two greek words, baphe and metis, meaning 'absorption of knowledge'.
Blingdom of God 2008
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Only the uncovered CFL registered on the card, a 1″. metis Says:
ArmorLite: A CFL Bulb Without The Risk of Toxic Mercury Exposure | Inhabitat 2010
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First, the book’s concluding chapter is a hymn to metis, the Greek for uncodifiable, practical knowledge.
Paul Seabright · The Aestheticising Vice: systematic knowledge · LRB 27 May 1999 Paul Seabright 2019
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While the French term métis initially referred to those with mixed European and First Nations ancestry, the term has come refer to descendants of a specific group in western Canada’s Red River region.
‘One hell of a storm is coming’: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage Leyland Cecco 2024
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While the French term métis initially referred to those with mixed European and First Nations ancestry, the term has come refer to descendants of a specific group in western Canada’s Red River region.
‘One hell of a storm is coming’: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage Leyland Cecco 2024
john commented on the word metis
"In Greek mythology, Metis was of the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid, in the sense that Metis was born of Oceanus and Tethys, of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings. Metis was the first great spouse of Zeus, indeed his equal (Hesiod, Theogony 896) and the mother of Athena, the goddess of the arts and wisdom. By the era of Greek philosophy Metis had become the goddess of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning" and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the "royal metis" of Zeus. The Stoic commentators allegorized Metis as the embodiment of "wisdom" or "wise counsel", in which form she was inherited by the Renaissance."
- Wikipedia
January 5, 2008
john commented on the word metis
"Usually translated, inadequately, as "cunning," metis is better understood as the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at a similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances."
- James C. Scott, "Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed"
January 5, 2008