Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A beautiful youth, loved but accidentally killed by Apollo, from whose blood Apollo caused the hyacinth to grow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of liliaceous bulbous plants, including about 30 species, natives of central Europe, Asia, and Africa.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Hyacinthaceae — thehyacinths . - proper noun Greek mythology A
Spartan youth loved and accidentally killed byApollo . The flower hyacinth sprang from his blood.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, will you come to-morrow about eleven, and then afterwards we can come back here to criticise 'Hyacinthus'? "
To-morrow? Victoria Cross 1910
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He rose before the assembly and called on his fellow citizens to remember the story of the Athenian heroes Leos and Hyacinthus, who had sacrificed their own willing daughters to save the state when it faced destruction.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He rose before the assembly and called on his fellow citizens to remember the story of the Athenian heroes Leos and Hyacinthus, who had sacrificed their own willing daughters to save the state when it faced destruction.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He rose before the assembly and called on his fellow citizens to remember the story of the Athenian heroes Leos and Hyacinthus, who had sacrificed their own willing daughters to save the state when it faced destruction.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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In 1988 the Dutch had the 37-year-old Arnold Mühren in the team, the man his Manchester United colleague Norman Whiteside was tickled to address habitually as "Arnold Johannes Hyacinthus Mühren, son of Arnold Pietrus Hyacinthus Mühren".
Holland's World Cup history is a tale of greatness without glory 2010
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I took her a bunch of bluebells (Hyacinthus nonscriptus), which Finn helped me pick in
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Hyacinthus, him whom Phoebus slew in the lists by a quoit hurled o'er the mark; wherefore did the son of Zeus ordain that Laconia's land should set apart that day for sacrifice; there too shalt thou find the tender maid, whom ye left in your house, for as yet no nuptial torch has shed its light for her.
Helen 2008
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Hyacinthus, him whom Phoebus slew in the lists by a quoit hurled o'er the mark; wherefore did the son of Zeus ordain that Laconia's land should set apart that day for sacrifice; there too shalt thou find the tender maid, whom ye left in your house, for as yet no nuptial torch has shed its light for her.
Helen 2008
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Drooping like Hyacinthus beneath the blow of the quoit, he sank on
Westward Ho! 2007
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No Hyacinthus followed Love so madly as you in Greek days.
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