Corinthian

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of or relating to ancient Corinth or its people or culture.
2. adj. Architecture Of or relating to the Corinthian order.
3. adj. Elegantly or elaborately ornate.
4. adj. Given to licentious and profligate luxury.
5. n. A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
6. n. A luxury-loving person; a bon vivant.
7. n. A wealthy amateur sportsman, especially an amateur yachtsman.
8. n. See Table at Bible.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pertaining to Corinth, a powerful city of ancient Greece, noted for the magnificence of its artistic adornment, and for its luxury and licentiousness.
2. Licentious; profligate.
3. Amateur: as, a Corinthian yacht-race (that is, a yacht-race in which only amateurs handle the boats). See II., 3, 4.
4. n. An inhabitant of Corinth.
5. n. A gay, licentious person; an adventurer; a ruffian; a bully.
6. n. A member of the aristocracy; specifically, a gentleman who steers his own yacht or rides his own horses.
7. n. Hence An amateur; specifically, an amateur sailor.
8. Elegantly ornate; florid: applied to literary style.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of or relating to Corinth
2. adj. architecture Of the Corinthian Greek order
3. adj. elaborate, ornate
4. n. An inhabitant or a resident of Corinth, and its suburbs.
5. n. An inhabitant, a resident of; a thing that originates from Corinthia
6. n. An accomplished amateur athlete.
7. n. A sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing.
8. n. A worldly, fashionable person, accepted in society though possibly dissolute.
9. n. Horse show-class in which contestants are members of a formal hunt and wear the livery thereof, as opposed to appointment show-class.
10. n. A small tubular wafer used in desserts.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or relating to Corinth.
2. adj. (Arch.) Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.
3. adj. Debauched in character or practice; impure.
4. adj. Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman.)
5. n. A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
6. n. obsolete A gay, licentious person.
7. n. A man of fashion given to pleasuring or sport; a fashionable man about town; esp., a man of means who drives his own horse, sails his own yacht, or the like.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
2. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants
3. adj. or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture
4. n. a resident of Corinth