On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Cronus. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as titan and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Cronus in a sentence
Cronus meaning
The youngest of the twelve Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia; father to the first generation of Olympian gods and goddesses.
Synonyms of Cronus
Using Cronus
- The main meaning on this page is: The youngest of the twelve Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia; father to the first generation of Olympian gods and goddesses.
- Useful related words include: titan.
- In the example corpus, cronus often appears in combinations such as: cronus and, cronus to, gave cronus.
Context around Cronus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cronus
- In this selection, "cronus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gave, cut, birth, swallowed, stomach and overthrowing stand out and add context to how "cronus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include metis gave cronus an emetic and and to cronus himself again. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cronus" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cronus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The idea is as old as Greek myth and Zeus destroying his father Cronus. (14 words)
Cronus, having taken control of the Cosmos, wanted to ensure that he maintained power. (14 words)
Cronus, the ruler of the Titans, was thrown down into the pits of Tartarus by his children. (17 words)
Immediately after their birth, Cronus swallowed all his children (Hestia was the first who was swallowed) except the last and youngest, Zeus, who forced Cronus to disgorge his siblings and led them in a war against their father and the other Titans. (42 words)
And the symbol meant that Cronus could see when asleep, and sleep while waking: and similarly in the case of the wings, that he flew while at rest, and was at rest when flying. (34 words)
Aischylos als Regisseur und Theologe, p. 30. Prometheus, himself a Titan, managed to avoid being in the direct confrontational cosmic battle between Zeus and the other Olympians against Cronus and the other Titans. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Immediately after their birth, Cronus swallowed all his children (Hestia was the first who was swallowed) except the last and youngest, Zeus, who forced Cronus to disgorge his siblings and led them in a war against their father and the other Titans.
In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus's stomach open.
In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open.
Like Cronus overthrowing his father Uranus, the Titans were overthrown by Cronus' children (Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera and Demeter), in the Titanomachy (or "War of the Titans").
The idea is as old as Greek myth and Zeus destroying his father Cronus.
Greek lore often claims that Gaea and Uranus spawned the original 12 Titans, one of whom was Cronus (via ).
According to some sources, Ophion ("serpent", a.k.a. Ophioneus), ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Cronus and Rhea.
Aischylos als Regisseur und Theologe, p. 30. Prometheus, himself a Titan, managed to avoid being in the direct confrontational cosmic battle between Zeus and the other Olympians against Cronus and the other Titans.
And Rhea gave Cronus a huge stone wrapped in baby's clothes which he swallow thinking that it was another of Rhea's children.
And the symbol meant that Cronus could see when asleep, and sleep while waking: and similarly in the case of the wings, that he flew while at rest, and was at rest when flying.
And to Cronus himself again he gave two wings upon his head, one representing the all-ruling mind, and one sensation.
As Sebastian Shaw and Gambit destroy Sinister's Cronus Machine, the device that he used to transfer his consciousness into new hosts, Xavier drives Sinister out of his body permanently.
Burkert, p. 170. Her mythographic status as first-born of Rhea and Cronus seems to justify the tradition in which a small offering is made to Hestia before any sacrifice ("Hestia comes first").
But to each of the other gods he gave two wings upon the shoulders, as meaning that they accompanied Cronus in his flight.
Cronus does not hold up the end of his bargain though and betrays her after getting her to trap the heroes for him.
Cronus, having taken control of the Cosmos, wanted to ensure that he maintained power.
Cronus, the ruler of the Titans, was thrown down into the pits of Tartarus by his children.
Descendants of the Titans The Titans, Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, and Cronus married their sisters Tethys, Theia, Phoebe and Rhea, and Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus.
Ēl (rendered Elus or called by his standard Greek counterpart Cronus ) is not the creator God or first God.
Having escaped, Zeus was spared because of the swiftness of Rhea tricking Cronus into thinking she consumed Zeus.
Common combinations with cronus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cronus and 4×
- cronus to 3×
- gave cronus 3×
- that cronus 3×
- to cronus 3×
- and cronus 3×
- cronus an 2×
- cronus in 2×
- cronus the 2×
- cronus would 2×