Hippocrene

[hip-uh-kreen, hip-uh-kree-nee]

noun

a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.

Related formsHip·po·cre·ni·an, adjective

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Historical Examples of hippocrene

Hippocrene, the spring of the Muses, said to have been created by the hoof-beat of Pegasus.
The Last Poems of Ovid
Ovid
That is to drink of the fountain of Hippocrene, to write verse.
The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare
J. J. Jusserand
Mountains of cheese, rivers of fat broth, are their Helicon and Hippocrene.
Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature
John Addington Symonds
I never saw him again, and a few years after he was drowned, not in the fountain of Hippocrene, but in the Guadalquivir.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Such is the effect of too copious draughts from that Hippocrene which alternately discharges cock-tail and mint-julep.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845
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British Dictionary definitions for hippocrene

Hippocrene

noun

a spring on Mount Helicon in Greece, said to engender poetic inspiration

Derived FormsHippocrenian, adjective

Word Origin for Hippocrene

C17: via Latin from Greek hippos horse + krēnē spring

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Word Origin and History for hippocrene

Hippocrene

fount on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses, from Greek Hippokrene, literally "horse's fountain," from hippos "horse" + krene "fountain."