PARNASSIAN


Meaning of PARNASSIAN in English

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.

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.