Cavafy

American  

[kah-vah-fee] / kɑˈvɑ fi /

noun

1. Constantine Konstantinos Kavafis, 1863–1933, Greek poet in Egypt.

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Cavafy British  

/ kəˈvɑːfɪ /

noun

1. Constantine. Greek name Kavafis. 1863–1933, Greek poet of Alexandria in Egypt

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Example Sentences

It is by an early 20th-century Greek poet, Constantine Cavafy, and is about the horses of Achilles, which were given to him by Zeus, the king of the Greek gods.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2022

“Ecstasy and Terror,” his third collection of essays, examines subjects across the millenniums, from Sappho and Euripides to C. P. Cavafy, John Williams, Karl Ove Knausgaard and “Game of Thrones.”

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2019

Lopez’s play strikes an upper-middlebrow tone, with knowing remarks about “Jules et Jim” and Constantine Cavafy, the Greek poet, who was a friend of Forster’s.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2019

It is part of a series: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from CP Cavafy.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2019

The late Dr Cavafy of St George’s Hospital urged me to learn something of Histology, and sent me to Dr Klein, whose pupil I had the good fortune to become at the Brown Institute. 

From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir