He was a Roman god of doors, of beginnings and endings. He had two faces.
Janus was a roman god, and had two faces.
A Janus faced fact would be something that has contrasting aspects. The word origin comes from Janus, the Roman two-faced god.
A Janus word is a word which is its own antonym. They are sometimes called amphibolous words, controyms, autoantonyms, contranyms or antilogies. It is a testament to the English language that context almost always eliminates the ambiguity that you think might exist with such words. Offer a Janus word with its alternate meanings, and if you like, offer a humorous use of your Janus word, or someone else's. Oversight can mean supervision over materials or processes, and it can also mean a neglectedthing or process. Presidential Oversight... Spare is another Janus word. It can mean 'over and above what is needed', or it can mean 'not abundant or plentiful'. Webster's Collegiate 1979
It is the first month of the calendar as it is now used in the Western world. It wasn't always so; even up to the eighteenth century people celebrated new years at about the time of the spring solstice.
it's from the roman mythical king Janus, who got the name for January because as some people know Caesar(I think) made this type of calendar that we use today, and he named January after Janus. Make sense?
If you mean polyhedron - it is solid figure having many faces
Janus has two faces! ! -DylanF
The Faces of Janus was created in 2000.
He had 2 faces. One evil and one good.
In the ancient world, Janus is a statue with two faces. The faces show completely different emotions. A Janus-faced response would be saying something totally different from your true feelings but hiding the truth from the person you're talking to.
Janus the god of doors and gateways had two faces, but he is a Roman god, not Greek.
He had two faces, one on either side of his head.
The Roman god Janus,who had two faces. The month of January is named after him.
Janus-like means two-faced i.e. insincere or hypocritical. The word comes from the Roman god Janus, who had two faces, and is also the source of 'January', the month that looks forwards to the new year and backwards to the old.
The month January is named after Janus, who is the god of beginnings and transitions and has two faces and so can see into the past and the future.
The Janus Man has 461 pages.
Janus, the two-faced (literally, he has two faces) god of choices and new beginnings. That's why January is the first month...for luck in the new year.
Janus is an ancient Roman god of doorways, of beginnings, and of the rising and setting of the sun, usually represented as having one head with two bearded faces back to back, looking in opposite directions.