epigonus
Americannoun
-
epigoni
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Wagner is a thorough-going decadent, an off-shoot, an epigonus, not a progonus.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James
The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is refreshing to turn from the epigoni of the so-called Roman school to masters in whom the flame of the Renaissance still burned brightly.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington
We, perhaps, being epigoni ourselves, are more at home among our fellow-pygmies.
From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by Inge, William Ralph
The great man is linked to his age by his weakest side; and his epigoni, who are not great men, caricature his message and make it ridiculous.
From The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 by Inge, William Ralph
We have had, it is true, a multitude of men, more or less clever epigoni, but little else.
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
