Horace
[hawr-is, hor-]
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 b.c., Roman poet and satirist.
- a male given name.
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Contemporary Examples
Tell me something interesting—preferably funny—about Horace Greeley.
In any case, she was a looker and Horace—with his blue eyes and his sweet-talking ways—won her over.
Old pictures of the couple show Horace decked out in a three-piece suit and diamond rings and Margaret swaddled in furs.
Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.
Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
Historical Examples
At the breakfast-table, comfortably near the hearth, sat Horace Milbrey.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Horace Milbrey sits alone in his gloomy, high-ceilinged library.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
In 1772 Horace Walpole compressed the glories of the place into a few sentences. '
Yorkshire Painted And DescribedGordon Home
By the statue of Horace Greeley I stood a moment irresolute.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
And he added, "'Horace was the son of a shopkeeper'—Horace who?"
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
Horace
- Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus. 65–8 bc, Roman poet and satirist: his verse includes the lyrics in the Epodes and the Odes, the Epistles and Satires, and the Ars Poetica
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Word Origin and History for horace
Horace
masc. proper name, from French, from Latin Horatius, name of a Roman gens. The poet was Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.E.). The form Horatio is influenced by the Italian version of the name, Orazio.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Horace
An ancient Roman poet, known for his odes. Horace insisted that poetry should offer both pleasure and instruction.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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