Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology A strikingly beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite, who transformed the drops of his blood into anemones after he was killed by a boar.
- noun A handsome young man.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beau; a dandy; an exquisite: as, he is quite an Adonis. In botany, a genus of European plants belonging to the natural order Ranunculaceæ.
- noun [lowercase] A kind of wig formerly worn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
- noun A preëminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of plants of the family
Ranunculaceæ , containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis ); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thetribe Ranunculeae — known aspheasant's eye or blood-drops. - proper noun Greek mythology A
beautiful young man loved byAphrodite . - proper noun rare A male
given name - noun A beautiful man.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any handsome young man
- noun annual or perennial herbs
- noun (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Adonis _Adonis_ apropos _apropo_ bowsprit _bowsprit_ brooch _broch_ not _broosh_ compromise _compromize_ jowl _jol_, not like _owl_ molecular _molecular_ ogle _ogle_ trow _tro_ vocable _vocable_ zoology _zoology_, not _zoo_
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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Shakespeare's _Venus and Adonis_, in like manner, is so written as to force the reader to feel with Venus the seduction of Adonis.]
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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The name Adonis is not here used, as Adon is the appropriated title of Jehovah.
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For the rest, he expounded some of the standard anti-Stratfordian delusions, e. g., that Venus and Adonis is exceptionally learned and that the Stratford Man made his money as a “grain trader”.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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For the rest, he expounded some of the standard anti-Stratfordian delusions, e. g., that Venus and Adonis is exceptionally learned and that the Stratford Man made his money as a “grain trader”.
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For the rest, he expounded some of the standard anti-Stratfordian delusions, e. g., that Venus and Adonis is exceptionally learned and that the Stratford Man made his money as a “grain trader”.
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He is, I believe, half Greek so Adonis is not such an odd name. on July 30, 2008 at 9: 39 pm | Reply nightjack
School’s Out Forever « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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[104] „ Adonis ... and Adonai Tammuz : Adonis is familiar, of course, but Adonai?
Archive 2006-03-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune.
Fortunate Son: Summary and book reviews of Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley. 2006
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[104] „ Adonis ... and Adonai Tammuz : Adonis is familiar, of course, but Adonai?
Losts in Translation Hal Duncan 2006
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