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Sep. 03, 2016
paean\PEE-uh n\noun
1. any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
2. a hymn of invocation or thanksgiving to Apollo or some other ancient
Greek deity.
QuotesThe sunlight was flooding in at the open lattice and, as if borne
upon this shaft of glory, came the mingled fragrance of herb and flower
and ripening fruit with the blithe carolling of birds, a very paean of
thanksgiving ...
-- Jeffery Farnol, The Amateur Gentleman, 1913
Origin of paeanPaean entered English in the 1500s by way of Latin
from Greek Paián, Paiá¹n, which in classical antiquity was an
appellation of Apollo, to whom hymns of victory or thanksgiving were
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