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callipygean

callipygean is the alternative spelling of callipygian.

Meaning of callipygian

Adjective

callipygian (comparative more callipygian, superlative most callipygian)

  1. Having beautifully shaped buttocks.
    • […]we soon once more were in a state to renew our delicious combat; and a second course was run in the delightful callipygian recesses of Venus’s second temple of lubricity.1873, anonymous author, The Romance of Lust, volume 1
  2. Specifically, describing a statue (often of a goddess such as Aphrodite) in a pose that shows off the figure's shapely buttocks.

Forms of callipygean

comparativemore callipygean
superlativemost callipygean

Questions about callipygean

What is callipygean the alternative spelling of?
Callipygean is the alternative spelling of callipygian.

Words near callipygean in the dictionary

  1. Callippic
  2. callipterid
  3. callipterids
  4. callipurbeckiid
  5. callipurbeckiids
  6. callipygean
  7. callipygian
  8. callipygious
  9. callipygous
  10. callirhipid
  11. callirhipids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: callipygean (page history and authors); callipygian (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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