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Dunciad

Dunciad noun: any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.

Noun

Dunciad (plural Dunciads)

  1. Any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
    • The poem, therefore, celebrating him, was properly and absolutely a Dunciad; which though now unhappily lost, yet is its nature sufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforesaid.1794, Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets
    • Such damning fame as Dunciads only give / Could bid your lines beyond a morning live.1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers

Forms of Dunciad

pluralDunciads

Questions about Dunciad

What does Dunciad mean?
Dunciad means any satirical poem like The Dunciad by Alexander Pope.
What part of speech is Dunciad?
Dunciad is a noun.
What is the plural of Dunciad?
The plural of Dunciad is Dunciads.

Words near Dunciad in the dictionary

  1. dunches
  2. dunchi
  3. dunchin
  4. dunching
  5. Dunchurch
  6. Dunciad
  7. Dunciads
  8. duncical
  9. duncified
  10. duncifies
  11. duncify

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