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anerithmon gelasma

anerithmon gelasma noun: the "uncountable laughter" of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.

Noun

anerithmon gelasma (uncountable)

  1. (poetic) The "uncountable laughter" of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.
    • With a stomach half full and a cerebrum hollow
      As the tortoise-shell ere it was strung for Apollo,
      Under contract to raise anerithmon gelasma
      With rhymes so hard hunted they gasp with the asthma,1848, James Russell Lowell, Poems
    • […] give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over the rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, Quarterly Review

Origin of anerithmon gelasma

From Ancient Greek ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα (anḗrithmon gélasma), from Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound (90).

Questions about anerithmon gelasma

What does anerithmon gelasma mean?
Anerithmon gelasma means the "uncountable laughter" of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.
What part of speech is anerithmon gelasma?
Anerithmon gelasma is a noun.

Words near anerithmon gelasma in the dictionary

  1. anergistic
  2. anergize
  3. anergized
  4. anergy
  5. aneristic
  6. anerithmon gelasma
  7. Anerley
  8. anerobic
  9. anerobically
  10. aneroid
  11. aneroid barometer

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