Peneus

American

[puh-nee-uhs] / pəˈni əs /

noun

ancient name of Salambria.

Peneus British

/ pɪˈniːəs /

noun

the ancient name for the Salambria

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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.

Her father, the river-god Peneus, was greatly tried because she refused all the handsome and eligible young men who wooed her.

From Literature

Exhausted, the nymph, unable to outstrip the god, begs her father, Peneus, a river divinity, to help her.

From The New Yorker

Some time after this episode, Apollo encountered in the forest a beautiful nymph by the name of Daphne, the daughter of the river god Peneus.

From Project Gutenberg

He set about turning the course of Alpheus and Peneus, rivers of Whitehall, and he sent their waters rushing through the stable.

From Project Gutenberg

So what did Hercules do but lead the courses of two streams, the Alpheus and the Peneus, right through the Augean stables cleansing them thoroughly.

From Project Gutenberg

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023