[
US
/məˈnɝvə, mɪˈnɝvə/
]
NOUN
- (Roman mythology) goddess of wisdom; counterpart of Greek Athena
How To Use Minerva In A Sentence
- Some Indian Ceres or Minerva must have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of nuts may be represented on our works of art.
- Mr. Andrews has succeeded in casting singers who are particularly skilled actors, especially Mr. Randle, whose baritonal tenor is almost crooner-like, and Pamela Helen Stephen as Penelope, Diana Montagu as his old nurse and Ruby Hughes as Minerva. Mirror-Image Operas Enjoy Identical Good Results
- Minerva wonders why it's called a disorder at all, and whether this is another example of the medicalisation of normal human behaviour.
- ‘Serves you right for wearing that,’ Minerva said pointing to Roxie's black bandeau accompanied by hipster jeans.
- You kissed Minerva, and she gave you a setdown to blister your ears. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
- It launches its new Minerva range of solid acrylic surfaces next month. Times, Sunday Times
- Philosophers and fools, separately or together, as the case may be -- for folly and philosophy not seldom form one Janus-head, and Minerva's bird seems sometimes not ill-fitted with the face of Momus -- these and their thousand intermediates have tried in all ages to define that quaint enigma, Man: and I wot not that any pundit of literature hath better succeeded than the nameless, fameless man -- or woman, was it? An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
- ‘Serves you right for wearing that,’ Minerva said pointing to Roxie's black bandeau accompanied by hipster jeans.
- Minerva in the shape of Count Bernsdorff, or out of all shape in the person of the Duchess of Northumberland, is to conduct Telemachus to York races; for can a monarch be perfectly accomplished in the mysteries of king-craft, as our Solomon James I. called it, unless he is initiated in the arts of jockeyship? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
- Minerva was recently embroiled in a heated discussion about the merits of cervical screening using smears.