| word | paean |
|---|---|
| definition | (1) A song of joy, praise, tribute, or triumph. (2) A work that praises or honors its subject. |
| eg_sentence | At his retirement party, the beloved president was treated to paeans from friends and employees to his years at the head of the company. |
| explanation | Originally in ancient Greece, a paian was a choral hymn to Apollo as the god of healing. More generally, it could be a hymn of thanksgiving, as when, in Homer's Iliad, the followers of Achilles sing a paean on the death of his enemy Hector. Paeans could be sung at banquets, at public funerals, to armies departing for battle and fleets leaving the harbor, and in celebrations of military victories |
| IPA | ˈpiən |
Tags: mwvb::unit:30, mwvb::unit:30:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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