parnassus

Speech parts

1. parnassus - Noun

2. Parnassus - Proper noun

Meaning

A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Mount Parnassus Liakoura apollo calliope poesy poetry rhyme paean helicon minstrelsy Francois doggerel balladry penillion poems
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Phrases with the word

carolina grass of parnassus marsh grass of parnassus carolina marsh grass of parnassus

Examples

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. Gerard Manley Hopkins

If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus. Randall Jarrell

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liakoura is the modern name of Mount Parnassus Source: Internet

Among his most important poems, Canto de Calíope, Epístola a Mateo Vázquez, and the Viaje del Parnaso (Journey to Parnassus 1614) stand out. Source: Internet

Among prints of the paintings The Parnassus (with considerable differences) Pon:86-87 lists them and Galatea were also especially well-known. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Parnassism Parnassius smintheus Parnassos parnauite Parnell Parnellian