Definitions for Adonis

Adonis A·don·is

Spelling: [uh-don-is, uh-doh-nis]
IPA: /əˈdɒn ɪs, əˈdoʊ nɪs/

Adonis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in Adonis (adinos).

Definitions for Adonis

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a very handsome young man.

Origin of Adonis

1615-25 for def 2

Examples for Adonis

Cyrus tweeted a series of photos posing with a Hand of Adonis sex toy on a a plane.

He had probably "Venus and Adonis" in his pocket when he first reached London.

For a time he wrote criticism for Mawaqif, a publication founded by the Syrian poet (and perennial Nobel also-ran) Adonis.

One spring morning while hunting in the forest, Adonis wounded two.

The latest Adonis cast in the part is 31-year-old model-turned-actor Jamie Dornan.

Then Calvin Klein aired a two-minute commercial featuring an Adonis flexing in underwear.

Brad Pitt, even in an impromptu cell phone photo, manages to look like Adonis on earth.

It is all concerned with the wooing of young Adonis by Venus, an older woman.

Pansy went, like the steed of Adonis, as if she told the steps.

According to others, however, it was the blood of Adonis which dyed the flower.

Word Value for Adonis
Scrable

0

Words with friends

8

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