PARNASSIAN


Meaning of PARNASSIAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pär-ˈna-sē-ən ]

adjective

Date: 1629

1.

[Latin parnassius of Parnassus, from Greek parnasios, from Parnasos Parnassus, mountain in Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses]

: of or relating to poetry

2.

[French parnassien, from Parnasse Parnassus; from Le Parnasse contemporain (1866), an anthology of poetry]

: of or relating to a school of French poets of the second half of the 19th century emphasizing metrical form rather than emotion

• Parnassian noun

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