Adonis
Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
a very handsome young man.
Origin of Adonis
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How to use Adonis in a sentence
Cyrus tweeted a series of photos posing with a Hand of Adonis sex toy on a a plane.
Brad Pitt, even in an impromptu cell phone photo, manages to look like Adonis on earth.
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Meet Jamie Dornan: ’50 Shades of Grey's' New Christian Grey | Kevin Fallon | October 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThen Calvin Klein aired a two-minute commercial featuring an Adonis flexing in underwear.
Oscars, the Super Bowl for Women & Other People’s Super Bowls | Kevin Fallon | February 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor a time he wrote criticism for Mawaqif, a publication founded by the Syrian poet (and perennial Nobel also-ran) Adonis.
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Near me danced a lusty Adonis of five-and-forty, who was decidedly the best male performer of the party.
The blood of Tammuz, Osiris, and Adonis reddened the swollen rivers which fertilized the soil.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieThere is no direct evidence, however, to connect Tammuz's slayer with the boar which killed Adonis.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieLike the many variants of it found in other countries, it was probably founded on a form of the Tammuz-Adonis myth.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieBut this legend was not followed by the other classical writers, who made the Anemone to be the flower of Adonis.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
British Dictionary definitions for Adonis
/ (əˈdəʊnɪs) /
Greek myth a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
a handsome young man
Origin of Adonis
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for Adonis
In classical mythology, an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love.
Notes for Adonis
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