paean

Speech parts

1. paean - Noun

2. paean - Verb

Meaning

An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

See Paeon.

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There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. Anita Diament

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. Kitty Kelley

Eyes forward! Sing a paean to the light That God gives us to net the distant stars In eyes that once were blinded with black earth. Philip José Farmer

It might have been Bezos, who hadn’t said a word since his opening statement, a five-minute long paean to himself. Source: Internet

It is arguably the most eloquent tribute ever recorded to a sport from a protagonist, a paean from a one-club man whose love for the game drove him to elevate it to heights few could have imagined. Source: Internet

As Tracy K. Smith lauds, "Another Brooklyn is heartbreaking and restorative, a gorgeous and generous paean to all we must leave behind on the path to becoming ourselves." Source: Internet

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