Epithalamium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Epithalamium is a noun meaning A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
Meaning
A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
More Meanings
- (Ancient Greece) A song in praise of the bride or bridegroom
Example Sentences
The Caves of Ajanta, the medieval Courts of Love, the epithalamia of the erotic poets [...] all testify to the glorification of manhood, the supremacy of the sex motif.
He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.
Softly she laughed and sighed, and swift her glances flew. She shook her heavy tresses, and their perfume filled the place; she struck her little sandalled foot upon the floor, and hummed a snatch of some old Greek epithalamium.
Word Forms
- epithalamiums
- epithalamia
- epithalamion
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hymeneals, anthem, dithyrambos, hymen, anthemion, amphidromia.
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