Word.ws English Dictionary

Jove nods

Jove nods is the alternative form of even Homer nods.

Meaning of even Homer nods

Proverb

even Homer nods

  1. Even the most vigilant and expert are fallible.
    • Horace acknowledges that honeſt Homer nods ſometimes: He is not equally awake in every Line: […]1677, John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. Written in Heroique Verse, and Dedicated to Her Royal...

Questions about Jove nods

What is Jove nods the alternative form of?
Jove nods is the alternative form of even Homer nods.

Words near Jove nods in the dictionary

  1. Jovanovic
  2. Jovanovich
  3. Jovanoviches
  4. Jovanovics
  5. Jove
  6. Jove nods
  7. Jove's beard
  8. Jovel
  9. Jovellar
  10. Jovels
  11. Joven

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Jove nods (page history and authors); even Homer nods (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Jove nods.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jove_nods. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.