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Adonis

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A·don·is  (-dns, -dns)
n.
1. Greek Mythology A strikingly beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite.
2. often adonis A very handsome young man.

[Greek Adnis, of Phoenician origin; see d in Semitic roots.]

Adonis [əˈdəʊnɪs]
n
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
2. a handsome young man
[from Latin, via Greek Adōnis from Phoenician adōni my lord, a title of the god Tammuz; related to Hebrew Adonai]

A•don•is (əˈdɒn ɪs, əˈdoʊ nɪs)

n.
1. a youth of Greek myth, slain by a wild boar, but brought back to life by Zeus and permitted to divide his time every year between Persephone and Aphrodite.
2. a very handsome young man.
A•don′ic, adj.
Thesaurus Legend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Adonis - any handsome young manadonis - any handsome young man              
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
2.Adonis - annual or perennial herbsAdonis - annual or perennial herbs            
magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
Adonis annua, pheasant's-eye - Eurasian herb cultivated for its deep red flowers with dark centers
3.Adonis - (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and PersephoneAdonis - (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone; "when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite"
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks
daemon, demigod - a person who is part mortal and part god
Translations
Adonis [əˈdəʊnɪs] NAdonis
Adonis
n (Myth, fig) → Adonis m
Adonis [əˈdəʊnɪs] nAdone m


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The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors.
Jones now walked downstairs neatly drest, and perhaps the fair Adonis was not a lovelier figure; and yet he had no charms for my landlady; for as that good woman did not resemble Venus at all in her person, so neither did she in her taste.
At the end of this period Shakspere issued two rather long narrative poems on classical subjects, 'Venus and Adonis,' and 'The Rape of Lucrece,' dedicating them both to the young Earl of Southampton, who thus appears as his patron.
 
 
 
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