Pean

Quick meaning: Pean is a noun meaning (heraldry) A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.

Meaning

(heraldry) A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.

More Meanings

1. (heraldry) In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field with gold spots.
2. Alternative spelling of paean.
3. Alternative spelling of peen.

Example Sentences

Antimodern romanticism is not primarily a complaint about lost nature; it is mainly a pean to lost values. Modernity is relativistic, the existentialists complain; it has lost a sense of real values, true courage, meaningful integrity.

The barbarian, wandering in nature's wilds, plucking the fruits as they grow, or destroying the game for his meat, and quenching his thirst with the waters of the gurgling rill, may furnish the poet with a theme for a pean to the goddess of Natural Liberty; but he will be a barbarian still, and his children after him, will roam over the same uncultivated wastes, and sleep in the same caves and dens, until they learn to associate with others and combine their efforts for mutual good.

Word Forms

• peans
• peaning
• peaned

Synonyms for pean

Depending on context, synonyms include eulogy, paean, encomium, panegyric.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paean, encomium, panegyric, eulogy, hemostats, bezant.

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