Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A mountain, about 2,458 m (8,060 ft) high, of central Greece north of the Gulf of Corinth. In ancient times it was sacred to Apollo, Dionysus, and the Muses. Delphi was at the foot of the mountain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mountain in central Greece, in mythology sacred to the Muses. The Delphian sanctuary of Apollo was on its slope, and from between its twin summit peaks flows the fountain Castalia, the waters of which were reputed to impart the virtue of poetic inspiration.
- n. Hence, figuratively The abiding-place of poetry and home of poets: sometimes used as a name for a collection of poems or of elegant literature.
Wiktionary
- n. Name of a mountain in central Greece; according to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs, and was the home of the Muses.
- n. figuratively Home of poetry, literature, and learning.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anc. Geog. & Gr. Myth.) A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Παρνασσός. (Wiktionary)
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“Unable to stop gambling with Mr. Nick aka the Devil (Tom Waits), Parnassus is about to lose his most valued treasure: his daughter, Valentina.”
“Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate.”
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“In Asia we find that the most numerous and greatest rivers flow from the mountain called Parnassus, admittedly the greatest of all mountains towards the south-east.”
“Within twenty miles of Highfield was another station, called Parnassus, belonging to Mr. Edward Lee, our Mr. Lee's brother.”
“He wandered for many days till he came in sight of a high mountain which the people told him was called Parnassus, and on the steep side of this mountain was the famous city of Delphi for which he was looking.”
“He wheedled himself into Mrs. Mifflin's good graces, and ended by putting us both into a book, called Parnassus on Wheels, which has been rather a trial to me.”
“Then followed, in 1875, Emerson's collection entitled Parnassus, and the next year Whittier's Songs of Three Centuries.”
“And I know not surely whether the mountain was called Parnassus,”
“Certainly our common grass of Parnassus, which is no grass at all, never starred the meadows round about the home of the”
“In Eastwell Park there was a hill, called Parnassus, to which she was particularly partial, and to this she commonly turned her footsteps.”
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