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Phoebus

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Phoe·bus  (fbs)
n.
1. Greek Mythology Apollo, the god of the sun.
2. The sun.
[Middle English phebus, from Latin Phoebus, from Greek phoibos, shining, Apollo.]
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Noun1.PhoebusPhoebus - (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis
Apollo, Phoebus Apollo
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks
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Come, let us make haste, or the sunshine will be gone, and Phoebus along with it.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Captain Phoebus de Châteaupers, at your service, my beauty
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
He showed men a new way of poetry; he proved to them that nightingale was as poetical a word as Philomel, that it was possible to speak of the sun and the moon as the sun and the moon, and not as Phoebus and Diana.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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