Definitions for Orpheus

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Orpheus Or·phe·us

Spelling: [awr-fee-uh s, -fyoos]

IPA: /ˈɔr fi əs, -fyus/

Orpheus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in Orpheus (ehoprsu).

Definitions for Orpheus

noun

1. Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
2. (italics) a ballet (1947) with music by Stravinsky and choreography by Balanchine.

Examples for Orpheus

Old books tell us that Orpheus was really the south wind itself.

The life of Orpheus that artists know and love seems to fall into three distinct parts.

The very rocks answered the voice of Orpheus, and everything was at peace.

But surely, you may say after all this, Orpheus is just a myth?

Sometimes, even in these days, it seems as if Orpheus were singing again.

Orpheus went into the woods one day and took nothing but his harp with him.

In fact, he's even a kind of modern-day Orpheus, descending into the sewer to bet his life and find redemption.

Orpheus also contains within himself two sides of the poetic character.

Traditionally, Orpheus was first a priest of Dionysus and then a priest of Apollo; he linked the cults within himself.

Then Orpheus began to play, and the hardest rocks were stirred.