Pierian

[pahy-eer-ee-uhn]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Muses.

2. of or relating to poetry or poetic inspiration.

3. of or relating to Pieria.

Pierian

/ paɪˈɪərɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Muses or artistic or poetic inspiration

2. of or relating to Pieria

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pierian¹

1585–95; < Latin Pīeri ( us ) of Pieria + -an

Example Sentences

The following lines are: “Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:/There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain/And drinking largely sobers us again.”

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Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’

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I never looked at her when she sang at the Pierian with you.

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The summer passed away quickly in a complexity of arrangements for the opening performance at the Pierian Hall.

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Sylvia’s mind rambled among the omens of numbers, and left her audience still undecided between Bond Street and Rumpelmayer’s, left it upon the steps of the Pierian Hall, the sport of passing traffic, hungry, thirsty, homesick.

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