1) Exclusively Saxon word 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) Mythological knot 4) Poser 5) Word of purely Anglo origin 6) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (disentangling an `impossible` knot) solved easily by cheating or `thinking outside the box` (`cutting the Gordian knot`): `Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, F...
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knot that gave its name to a proverbial term for a problem solvable only by bold action. In 333 , Alexander the Great, on his march through ... [2 related articles]
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The earliest reference to a string puzzle. In Greek mythology, a Phrygian peasant called Gordius, the father of Minos (see mazes), became king because he was first to arrive in town after an oracle commanded the Phrygians to select as ruler the first person to drive into the public square in a wagon...
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In Greek mythology, the knot tied by King Gordius of Phrygia that - so an oracle revealed - could be unravelled only by the future conqueror of Asia. According to tradition, Alexander the Great,...
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In Greek mythology, the Gordian Knot was a knot made in the harness of the chariot of King Gordius and tied by King Gordius. The knot was so intricate that there was no way of telling where it began, nor ended, and that an oracle had decreed that the knot could only be unravelled by a future conqueror of Asia. In 334 BC Alexander tried and failed t...
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n] - any very difficult problem 2. [n] - an intricate knot tied by King Gordius of Phrygia and cut with his sword by Alexander the Great after hearing that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia
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noun an intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia
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In Greek mythology, the knot tied by King Gordius of Phrygia that – so an oracle revealed – could be unravelled only by the future conqueror of Asia. According to tradition, Alexander the Great, unable to untie it, cut it with his sword in 334 BC
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