paeon
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of paeon
1595–1605; < Latin paeōn < Greek paiōn, Attic variant of paiā́n; see paean
Example Sentences
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And then the movie – like all the great John Hughes movies, a paeon to the ambiguities of youth; the pleasures, the agonisies, the clothes, oh sweet Jesus the clothes.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2014
Instead it is a heart-wringing paeon to homesickness.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2010
The paeon, however, as consisting of four syllables, is reckoned by some to be only a number, and not a foot.
From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.
And all this, which is also contained in Aristotle, is said by Theophrastus and Theodectes about the paeon.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
But both parties seem to be equally mistaken: for those who exclude the paeon, are not aware that they reject the sweetest and fullest number we have.
From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by Jones, E.
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