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How do you use Medes in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Medes in a sentence

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Medes | Mede | Medeski

Medes meaning

plural of Mede

Using Medes

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of Mede
  • In the example corpus, medes often appears in combinations such as: the medes, medes and.

Context around Medes

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

arabs 1× babylonians 1× proceeding 1×

Often after:

elamites 1× two 1×

Sentence patterns with Medes

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and the medes and persians 1× chaldeans arabs medes elamites arameans 1× in proceeding medes 09 proceedings 1× mention the medes who are 1× of the medes and later 1× of the medes and so 1× of the medes and thus 1× of the medes by conquering 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

also the avesta 1× croesus believed that 1× elam was destroyed 1× hegmataneh or ecbatana 1× however necho easily 1× published in proceeding 1×

Common sentence endings:

achaemenids and parthians 1× around 700 bc 1× conquering their lands 1× medes and scythians 1× of ancient afghanistan 1× of their own 1×

Words around Medes

Just before it in the word index:

mederos 2 medero 2 meder 2 medequities 6 medemer 4 medel 7

Just after it in the word index:

medeski 2 medevac 32 medevaced 3 medevacked 2 medevacs 4 medexpress 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aanand 16 abcd 16 abdurrahman 16 aberdour 16 abergele 16 abg 16

Corpus analysis for Medes

  • In this selection, "medes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, arabs, babylonians, proceeding, elamites and two stand out and add context to how "medes" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and the medes and persians and chaldeans arabs medes elamites arameans. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "medes" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with medes

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The Persian hardiness and austerity is combined with the luxuriousness of the Medes, two qualities that cannot coexist. (18 words)

Published in: Proceeding, MEDES '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, ACM New York, NY, USA. (21 words)

Croesus believed that a mule could never be king of the Medes and thus that he and his issue would never be out of power. (25 words)

Longer example sentences

Of all the answers that had reached him, this pleased him far the best, for it seemed incredible that a mule should ever come to be king of the Medes, and so he concluded that the sovereignty would never depart from himself or his seed after him. (47 words)

It does not seem that Nabonidus would be completely misled about who his enemies were, or who was really in control over the Medes and Persians just one to three years before his kingdom fell to their armies. (38 words)

The Egyptians attempted to remain in the Near East, possibly in an effort to aid in restoring Assyria as a secure buffer against Babylonia and the Medes and Persians, or to carve out an empire of their own. (38 words)

Example sentences (13)

Croesus believed that a mule could never be king of the Medes and thus that he and his issue would never be out of power.

Hegmataneh, or Ecbatana, is an ancient site linked to the capital of the Medes and later used as a summer capital by the Achaemenids and Parthians.

Also, the Avesta itself divides into Old and New sections and neither mention the Medes who are known to have ruled Afghanistan starting around 700 BC.

Elam was destroyed once and for all, and the Babylonians, Persians, Chaldeans, Arabs, Medes, Elamites, Arameans, Suteans and Canaanites were violently subjugated, with Assyrian troops exacting savage revenge on the rebelling peoples.

However, Necho easily brushed aside the Israelite army under King Josiah but he and the Assyrians then lost a battle at Harran to the Babylonians, Medes and Scythians.

It does not seem that Nabonidus would be completely misled about who his enemies were, or who was really in control over the Medes and Persians just one to three years before his kingdom fell to their armies.

Of all the answers that had reached him, this pleased him far the best, for it seemed incredible that a mule should ever come to be king of the Medes, and so he concluded that the sovereignty would never depart from himself or his seed after him.

Published in: Proceeding, MEDES '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, ACM New York, NY, USA.

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Scholars have questioned whether her son Medeius is the son of Jason or of Aegeus, but Medeius goes on to become the ancestor of the Medes by conquering their lands.

The Egyptians attempted to remain in the Near East, possibly in an effort to aid in restoring Assyria as a secure buffer against Babylonia and the Medes and Persians, or to carve out an empire of their own.

The Medes, a Western Persian people, arrived from what is today Kurdistan sometime around the 700s BC and came to dominate most of ancient Afghanistan.

The Persian hardiness and austerity is combined with the luxuriousness of the Medes, two qualities that cannot coexist.

They elected new leaders, including Xenophon himself, and fought their way north along the Tigris through hostile Persians and Medes to Trapezus on the coast of the Black Sea (Anabasis 4.8.22).

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Common combinations with medes

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "medes" in a sentence?
An example: "Croesus believed that a mule could never be king of the Medes and thus that he and his issue would never be out of power." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "medes" from authentic English texts.
What does "medes" mean?
Medes means: plural of Mede
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