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chorizontists

chorizontists is the plural of chorizont.

Meaning of chorizont

Noun

chorizont (plural chorizonts)

  1. One who challenges a widely held assumption of authorship for a major work, especially one who believes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by Homer.
    • This passage was used by van Leeuwen as evidence in his argument for different authorship of the Odyssey. Since this argument is given much weight by the chorizont Wilhelm Schmid, let us quote it in full:1938, Samuel Eliot Bassett, The Poetry of Homer - Volume 15, page 137
    Synonyms:
    chorizontist

Questions about chorizontists

What is chorizontists the plural of?
Chorizontists is the plural of chorizont.

Words near chorizontists in the dictionary

  1. choritsos
  2. chorization
  3. chorizo
  4. chorizont
  5. chorizontist
  6. chorizontists
  7. chorizonts
  8. chorizos
  9. chorizzo
  10. chorizzos
  11. chork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chorizontists (page history and authors); chorizont (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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