pindar

IPA: pɪndˈær

Root Word: Pindar

noun

  • (ca. 522–443 BC) A great Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes
  • Alternative form of pinder or pindal ("peanut"). [(US, dialectal, especially Southern US) A peanut, the nut-like pod containing the edible seed(s) of a leguminous plant.]
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Examples of "pindar" in Sentences

  • Greeks long cherished the memory of Pindar.
  • Pindar the poet honoured the god with a hymn.
  • Pindar called spring water as agreeable as honey .
  • Pindar is only the earliest recorded use in Greek...
  • It was for a long time the most complete edition of Pindar.
  • The most famous paeans are those of Bacchylides and Pindar.
  • It is possible that Pindar spent much of this time at Aegina.
  • And let nobody speak of Pindar who has not read Pindar in Greek.
  • To the south is the Pindari Glacier, draining into the Pindar River.
  • The ground-nut or peanut (Arachis hypogaea), the “pindar” of the United
  • He gets a job with Pindar and learns that Pindar may also be importing heroin.
  • The ground-nut or peanut (Arachis hypogaea), the "pindar" of the United States, a word derived from
  • The Peanut in its travels has also acquired a variety of names, such as ground-pea, earth-nut, goober [1] or guber, and pindar.
  • There also were valiant Much, the miller's son, gallant Scathelock, George a Green, the pindar of Wakefield, the fat and jolly Friar Tuck, and many another woodsman of renown, a band of lusty archers such as all England could not elsewhere match.
  • Whether the black slaves brought to America the okra or found it already existing on the continent is uncertain, but the term gumbo is undoubtedly of African origin, as also is the term mbenda (peanuts or ground-nuts), corrupted into pindar in some of the Southern States.

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