Definitions for Priapus

Priapus Pri·a·pus

Spelling: [prahy-ey-puh s]
IPA: /praɪˈeɪ pəs/

Priapus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in Priapus (aipprsu).

Definitions for Priapus

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
  2. (lowercase) a phallus.

Examples for Priapus

His infinite fund of full-flavoured jest had won him the nickname of Priapus.

Priapus was a god to the ancients—to the people of the Middle Ages he was a saint.

Priapus is readily recognized in all these various disguises.

As there was a cult to Priapus, so there was an equally strong cult to Diana.

The temples are desecrated, and the holy ganders of Priapus slain!

Is the Priapus of the priests less obscene than the Priapus of the players?

Go where we will, we find no statues of Priapus and the Nymphs.

And Priapus was with them, having a crown of ivy-leaves made of gold.

Why not hang him in an orchard, like a wooden Priapus, to frighten the birds?

Priapus, the god of gardens or fertility, was the son of Bacchus and Venus.

Word Value for Priapus
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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