Prothalamion

Quick meaning: Prothalamion is a noun meaning (literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.

Meaning

(literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.

Example Sentences

Zauq then wrote his own prothalamion in which the last verse (in the same vein as Ghalib's) challenged the ability of those who made a claim to be poets to equal his writing of a sehra. Zauq's prothalamion was given very wide publicity by the professional singers in the palace, and the next day it was published in the local newspaper.

Word Forms

• prothalamions
• prothalamia
• prothalamium

Synonyms for prothalamion

Depending on context, synonyms include epithalamium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prothalamium, epithalamion, epithalamy, partheniad, parodos, prosodion.

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