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epinician

epinician adjective: of, related to, or resembling a certain type of Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete.

Adjective

epinician (comparative more epinician, superlative most epinician)

  1. Of, related to, or resembling a certain type of Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete

Noun

epinician (plural epinicians)

  1. A Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete
    • it is some time since a commentator writing in English tackled a whole book of the epinicians.2005, W.B. Henry, “Preface”, in Pindar's Nemeans, page v

Forms of epinician

Adjective
comparativemore epinician
superlativemost epinician
Noun
pluralepinicians

Questions about epinician

What does epinician mean?
Epinician means of, related to, or resembling a certain type of Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete.
What part of speech is epinician?
Epinician can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near epinician in the dictionary

  1. epineuston
  2. epinglette
  3. epinglettes
  4. epinicia
  5. epinicial
  6. epinician
  7. epinicians
  8. epinicion
  9. epinicions
  10. epinikia
  11. epinikian

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