paean
IPA: pˈiʌn
noun
- (Ancient Greece, historical) A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
- (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
- (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise.
verb
- (transitive, rare) To sing a paean; to praise.
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Examples of "paean" in Sentences
- The people sang a paean.
- I found his paean to the strip very moving.
- At the same time, the novel is a paean to the self made man.
- It was a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s and its values.
- Two previous commentators are correct that the article is a paean.
- He went on to deliver a veritable paean to the piece of parchment.
- The current version of the article is a paean to critical pedagogy.
- The song was a light and humorous paean to going on a murder spree.
- Plutarch contrasted the dithyramb's wild and ecstatic character with the paean.