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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

peã

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pean

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Paean/ˈpiː.ən/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A sinfonia foi um verdadeiro peã à natureza."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A song or expression of praise, triumph, or thanksgiving.

    "The novelist's latest book is a passionate paean to the resilience of the human spirit."
  2. 2

    A triumphant song of victory or deliverance in classical antiquity.

    "The soldiers chanted a stirring paean as they marched back from the victorious battlefield."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek paiān, the Homeric name for the physician of the gods or a song of triumph sung to Apollo. It entered English in the late 16th century via Latin, shifting from a specific hymn of invocation or thanksgiving to Apollo into a general literary term for any song, expression, or piece of writing that expresses enthusiastic praise.

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