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Adonis

/əˈdəʊ.nɪs/US/əˈdɑn.ɪs/

Adonis proper noun: a beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.

Proper noun

Adonis

  1. (Greek) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
    • The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, S. George
    • A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of...1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun
  2. (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
  3. A surname.
  4. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.

Noun

Adonis (plural Adonises or Adonides)

  1. A beautiful man.

Adonis meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Tagalog

Adonis in Tamil

அடோனிஸ்

Adonis in Kannada

ಚೆಲುವ

Adonis in Tagalog

the young man loved by Aphrodite
Adonis

Forms of Adonis

pluralAdonises
pluralAdonides

Origin of Adonis

From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).

Words formed from Adonis

Phrases with Adonis

Questions about Adonis

What does Adonis mean?
Adonis means a beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
What is Adonis in Tamil?
Adonis in Tamil is அடோனிஸ். See Adonis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Adonis?
Adonis can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Adonis?
Adonis is pronounced /əˈdəʊ.nɪs/ (UK).

Words near Adonis in the dictionary

  1. Adonides
  2. adonidin
  3. adonifoline
  4. Adonijah
  5. adonirubin
  6. Adonis
  7. Adonis belt
  8. Adonis belts
  9. Adonis blue
  10. Adonis blues
  11. adonis pleco

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Adonis (page history and authors); adonis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adonis (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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