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metamorphoses

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for metamorphoses.

Editorial note

What's curious to me is the meta-cognition and self-awareness that goes on as a change-the-world startup like Google metamorphoses into Big Evil.

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Quick take

The (from : "Transformations") a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of metamorphoses gathered in one view.

N

The (from : "Transformations") a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid.

N

a themed work of poetry composed by Ovid.

N

a play by the American playwright and director Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem Metamorphoses.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for metamorphoses.

N

The (from : "Transformations") a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid.

N

a themed work of poetry composed by Ovid.

N

a play by the American playwright and director Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem Metamorphoses.

Example sentences

1

What's curious to me is the meta-cognition and self-awareness that goes on as a change-the-world startup like Google metamorphoses into Big Evil.

2

What it is is (1) extremely unlikely, and (2) easily checked by looking at the DNA sequence of any insect that metamorphoses.

3

Bah, there's a report of an earlier one in Ovid's Metamorphoses from 8 CE.

4

The Metamorphoses of Apuleius—better known as The Golden Ass —is the oldest extant novel.

5

You'll undergo several metamorphoses in your life - often an illness, death of a close parent, marriage, children, disasters.

6

Ovid's Metamorphoses has helped me blog posts about the philosophy of science.

7

There was a tradition that at the neighboring city of Corinth, the original inhabitants were mushrooms that Sisyphus converted into men (Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.392-3; cf.

8

Perhaps if we work hard enough, we can collectively blame the Trump administration for a dramatic uptick in Kafkaesque cockroach metamorphoses, worldwide!

9

I'd add that I had a great time reading the Metamorphoses by Ovid.

10

Complexity, paradoxes and metamorphoses: the hidden plot.

11

On top of that I have to deal with the fact that apparently all AirBnb hosts probably pay for some kick ass photographer that just metamorphoses their places.

12

References to Ovid's Metamorphoses can be found on almost every page of Shakespeare, and if you haven't read Ovid (and really, how many people nowadays have?) a lot of Shakespeare's references can be cryptic.

Quote examples

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He mastered his style of "special effects" made out of words - grotesque metamorphoses of familiar day-to-day situations.

2

This reminds me of Nietzsche's "Three Metamorphoses"[1].

3

Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” is a fixture of Lit Hum, but like so many texts in the Western canon, it contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom.

4

"in My Fair Lady (based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion)" which of course draws on Ovid's Metamorphoses poem about Pygmalion from ancient Greek tradition.

Proper noun examples

1

The Hollywood versions of Greco-Roman mythology aren't the same as what you get in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

2

My goal since the start (January 2020) has been to read Ovid's Metamorphoses, which hasn't worked out yet, but it's a work in progress.

3

Metamorphoses is really nice book with lot of stories woven together.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use metamorphoses in a sentence?

What's curious to me is the meta-cognition and self-awareness that goes on as a change-the-world startup like Google metamorphoses into Big Evil.

What does metamorphoses mean?

The (from : "Transformations") a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid.

What part of speech is metamorphoses?

metamorphoses is commonly used as N.