Definitions for Sapphic

Sapphic Sap·phic

Spelling: [saf-ik]
IPA: /ˈsæf ɪk/

Sapphic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in Sapphic (achipps).

Definitions for Sapphic

noun

  1. a Sapphic verse.

adjective

  1. pertaining to Sappho or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by or named after her.
  2. Lesbian (def 2).

Origin of Sapphic

1495-1505; Latin sapphicus Greek sapphikós, equivalent to Sapph(ṓ) Sappho + -ikos -ic

Examples for Sapphic

The influence of the Sapphic legend, I fancy, not alone because of the sweet inversion.

The game has a long history in media and popular culture, and its depictions have hardly all been Sapphic.

Quantitative measures, like the Sapphic and Hexameter, were composed accentually.

The hypnotic vibrations of the Sapphic thrill were affected by a new series, striking them in like phases.

Its essence is flavored with the day and lyric trail of the Sapphic students.

They would later be dubbed a “bloodthirsty” “lesbian she-wolf pack” and—most famously—“a seething, Sapphic septet.”

He forgot all about Sappho, but the Sapphic vibrations went on increasingly.

Erinna and Damophyla study together the composition of Sapphic metres.

After the hexameter the most frequently imitated metre is the Sapphic strophe.

No doubt she's sitting in her Sapphic palace cackling on her money.

Word Value for Sapphic
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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