Meaning of Isis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic; also worshiped by (some) Greeks during the Hellenistic period and featured in Greek mythology, and by Romans involved in what was categorized as the Cult of Isis.
   Egyptian
2. The River Thames between its source and its confluence with the River Thame at Dorchester on Thames.
   UK
3. Ellipsis of HM Prison Isis.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
4. Alternative letter-case form of ISIS.
   alt-of
5. A Salafist group mainly active in Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed itself as a (unrecognized) state and later caliphate.
6. Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints.
7. 42 Isis, a main belt asteroid.
8. A female given name from Egyptian or Ancient Greek.
   uncommon

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Examples

“Grant me profane kiss / Oh Isis, mother ov all / Thy lips like morphine / Teasing my slumbering heart”

“Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.”

“'Beloved Isis,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'”

“Dorchester is not on the Thames, yet belongs to it certainly, for the Thame, which combines with the Isis to form the Thames, flows past it.”

“They had put in under the dappled shade of an overhanging willow a little down the left bank of the Isis.”

“The terrorist threat is growing, the politicians and intelligence services say, due in part to the degradation of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the rising numbers of Isis fighters returning to Europe.”

“[…] the numerous families of coral, which, under the form of tubular, starry, or stony stems, are denominated tubipores, madrepores, and isises.”

“They didn't know the room was too big, because they didn't have anybody there. How are they going to beat ISIS? I don't think it's gonna happen.”

“Despite territorial defeats in Iraq and Syria, ISIS continues to draw support from HVEs in the United States and the group’s global calls for attacks have intensified since the death last year of senior leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”

“Terror groups linked to al Qaeda and ISIS have been active in Niger for years.”

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