Definitions for Anacreon

Anacreon A·nac·re·on

Spelling: [uh-nak-ree-uh n]
IPA: /əˈnæk ri ən/

Anacreon is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in Anacreon (aacennor).

Definitions for Anacreon

noun

  1. c570–c480 b.c, Greek writer, especially of love poems and drinking songs.

Examples for Anacreon

There were ears for these sounds in Greece long ago, as Anacreon's ode will show.

Abundant are the parœnia of Alcæus, Anacreon, Theognis, and others.

It was at his court that Anacreon sung of wine and love as none had sung before.

Anacreon has more than a dozen, and other favorites in proportion.

Poets, in every age since the time of Anacreon, have sung odes in praise of wine.

And Anacreon mentions it on the same occasion always in every page.

Of what Anacreon said to a fly that lighted on his brow when he was composing an ode to Venus.

The indifference of this Anacreon of music to renown is worthy of remark.

A glance at the Anacreon will show the truth of this observation.

An extant portrait of Anacreon is also derived from Cresilas.

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