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apollinaris

apollinaris noun: a type of sparkling mineral water.

Noun

apollinaris (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A type of sparkling mineral water.
    • Neither had he then, in answer, to articulate anything but the jollity of their having found a table at a window from which, as they partook of cold beef and apollinaris [...] they could let their eyes hover tenderly on the far-off white cliffs that so often had signalled to the embarrassed English...1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
    • We supped and camped at the very edge of the cliff, quenching our thirst with two bottles of Apollinaris which were in one of the cases.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Origin of apollinaris

Originally ‘Apollinaris water’, from Apollinarisburg, a hill near Bonn, Germany.

Phrases with apollinaris

Questions about apollinaris

What does apollinaris mean?
Apollinaris means a type of sparkling mineral water.
What part of speech is apollinaris?
Apollinaris is a noun.

Words near apollinaris in the dictionary

  1. Apollinairean
  2. Apollinairian
  3. Apollinarian
  4. Apollinarianism
  5. Apollinarians
  6. apollinaris
  7. Apollinaris water
  8. Apollinarism
  9. Apolline
  10. Apollinian
  11. apollo

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