Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A shallow, stemmed, two-handled drinking cup of ancient Greece.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek antiquity, a vase or cup of elegant form, used for drinking. The kylix was usually broad and shallow, with or without a slender foot, and provided with two handles not extending above the rim. Also written cylix.
Wiktionary
- n. An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body
WordNet 3.0
- n. a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece
Etymologies
- From the Greek κύλιξ (kulix) (cup). (Wiktionary)
- Greek kulix. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Vernon Silver shines a spotlight over the shockingly cut-throat often illegal by even renowned museums competition for priceless ancient art by focusing on a kylix by famous ancient Greek artisan Euphronios.”
“Archeologists also discovered a second bronze sword with a bone handle, a bronze and iron dagger, a pair of greaves armoured plates, an arrowhead, a spear point, a golden kylix or wine cup and a bronze boiler in the grave.”
“Rather the first sentence can only sensibly read "I am the kylix of Cupe Althrna".”
“On November 29 -- without the fanfare graciously displayed at the MFA -- the Met received from Italy a kylix (drinking cup) from 560 to 550 B.C., which will be on loan to the museum until November 2010.”
“At a conference in Viterbo, north of Rome, the following October, an Italian scholar presented evidence that a fragmentary red-figure kylix at the Getty had been taken illegally from Cerveteri.”
“While neither account named True's "reliable sources," or the dealer or dealers who sold the vase fragments to the Getty, the kylix does appear in court documents pertaining to Hecht's trial, as well as True's.”
“While the Met dismissed the evidence offered about the Morgantina treasure as inconclusive, True conducted a review of the Euphronios-Onesimos kylix and concluded that it should be returned to Italy.”
“Finds from the tombs of the Valley of Thracian Kings include decorative equestrian ornaments and a delicate gold kylix, or drinking cup.”
“Fletcher Norton went the four Greek vases — a kylix, a water-jar, and two amphorae — which he had sold to Cowperwood and which he valued highly.”
“There's a wonderful lesson in scale to be learned from Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past, an exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center, and it can be found at the bottom of a cup (or kylix, to use its proper name) dating from around 460 B.C.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kylix’.
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Containers
Stuff that holds other stuff.
cardboard box, jar, filing cabinet, safe deposit box, cupboard, wardrobe, jewel case, briefcase, locker, canopic jar, chest of drawers, paper sack and 208 more...
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
sinopia, replevin, lathee, hoisin, kerygma, czardas, amoxicillin, talipes, simoleon, hypermnesia, anodyne, mystique and 238 more...
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O So Zhinsky!
zarf, liripipe, theandric, tazza, bobeche, autotelic, gonfalon, refulgent, crepuscular, caduceus, knop, labarum and 46 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Libatious Words
worth pouring over
foison, fondant, fondue, font, found, funnel, fusile, libation, fuse, fusion, affusion, circumfuse and 85 more...
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Cup of Any Type; Drinking Vessel
Words related to cup of any type or a drinking vessel
poculum, calyx, calix, scyphus, scypha, kylix, cylix, cantharus, cyathus, cyath, acetabulum, cotyle and 5 more...
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taber's Words
confluence, interregnum, obstreperous, allodial, anfractuous, priapic, curmur, peripatetic, irredentism, revanchism, deracinate, prolix and 43 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Other figures of virile and beautiful Greek youth appear on Greek pots and vases. A kylix in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge shows a young athlete stooping in his bath. The rapturous motto around the dish says, 'The boy, yes, the boy is beautiful.'"
- 'What turns women on', Germaine Greer in Esquire, 1973. Apr 14, 2008