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zoilus

zoilus noun: a critic characterized as bitter, carping, malignant.

Noun

zoilus (plural zoiluses or zoili)

  1. A critic characterized as bitter, carping, malignant.
    Synonyms:
    Aristarch

Proper noun capitalized: Zoilus

Zoilus

  1. An Ancient Greek grammarian and critic (400–320 B.C.), known for his harsh criticisms of Homer’s poems.

zoilus meaning in Bengali

zoilus in Bengali

একজন কটূক্তিপূর্ণ, বিদ্বেষপূর্ণ সমালোচক

Synonyms of zoilus

Forms of zoilus

pluralzoiluses
pluralzoili

Origin of zoilus

From the name of Zoilus, an ancient Greek rhetorician who severely criticized Homer's poems. From Ancient Greek Ζωΐλος (Zōḯlos).

Borrowed from Latin Zōilus, from Ancient Greek Ζωΐλος (Zōḯlos).

Words formed from zoilus

Questions about zoilus

What does zoilus mean?
Zoilus means a critic characterized as bitter, carping, malignant.
What is zoilus in Bengali?
Zoilus in Bengali is একজন কটূক্তিপূর্ণ, বিদ্বেষপূর্ণ সমালোচক. See Zoilus meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is zoilus?
Zoilus can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of zoilus?
The plural of zoilus is zoiluses.

Words near zoilus in the dictionary

  1. Zoilean
  2. zoili
  3. Zoilism
  4. Zoilist
  5. Zoilists
  6. zoilus
  7. zoiluses
  8. zoink
  9. zoink out
  10. zoinked
  11. zoinked out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoilus (page history and authors); Zoilus (page history and authors); zoilus (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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