PARNASSIAN


Meaning of PARNASSIAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pɑ:ˈnæsɪən ]

adj. & n. --adj. 1 of Parnassus, a mountain in C. Greece, in antiquity sacred to the Muses. 2 poetic. 3 of or relating to a group of French poets in the late 19th c., emphasizing strictness of form, named from the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain (1866). --n. a member of this group.

English main colloquial, spoken dictionary.      Английский основной разговорный словарь.