Horace [ hawr -is, hor - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhɔr ɪs, ˈhɒr- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
Quintus Horatius Flaccus , 65–8 b.c., Roman poet and satirist.
a male given name.
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How to use Horace in a sentence He told Horace that he just wanted to speak to me for a second, and then right in front of everyone, he asked me if I would do a recording with him.
In between cons and cat burglaries, Horace and Jasper notice Estella’s talents for making clothes.
Horace and Violet Saunders, both 96, died days apart after a 75-year love story.
Horace , an all-star, won three championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
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.
Christopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace .
Horace Bianchon was a brilliant and inspiring conversationalist.
Horace combats this prejudice with equal force and address in his fine epistle to Augustus.
You have intelligence and powers of invention, as Virgil and Horace had; but perhaps it is not absolutely the same intelligence.
The Odes of Horace have never been transcended, and will probably remain through all ages the delight of scholars.
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British Dictionary definitions for Horace
noun
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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Cultural definitions for Horace
An ancient Roman poet, known for his odes . Horace insisted that poetry should offer both pleasure and instruction.
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