Definitions for Hippocrene

Hippocrene Hip·po·crene

Spelling: [hip-uh-kreen, hip-uh-kree-nee]
IPA: /ˈhɪp əˌkrin, ˌhɪp əˈkri ni/

Hippocrene is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in Hippocrene (ceehinoppr).

Definitions for Hippocrene

noun

  1. a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.

Examples for Hippocrene

That is to drink of the fountain of Hippocrene, to write verse.

Grecian mythology said that the fountain of Hippocrene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

With the fountain of Hippocrene in its center, from which a rill will flow murmuring all the day.

Such is the effect of too copious draughts from that Hippocrene which alternately discharges cock-tail and mint-julep.

Hippocrene, the spring of the Muses, said to have been created by the hoof-beat of Pegasus.

Mountains of cheese, rivers of fat broth, are their Helicon and Hippocrene.

O, say some, Byron owed a great portion of his inspiration to gin and water, and that was his Hippocrene.

I never saw him again, and a few years after he was drowned, not in the fountain of Hippocrene, but in the Guadalquivir.

Hippocrene was probably at Makariotissa, which is noted for a fine spring of water.

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