What does xoanon mean?
Xoanon means (historical) A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈzəʊ.ə.nɒn/ · noun
(historical) A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece..
In the case of 679, the well-known female figure of xoanon shape, it is often asserted that we see a more or less archaistic survival; […]
Callimachus' description of the Samian xoanon as a sanis—a flat board or plank regularly used for doors or wooden tablets—and specifically as "not carved by chisels" (gluphanôn axoos sanis) clearly indicates an aniconic Hera of Samos.
On Carlo Brillante's convincing interpretation, Thamyras is here attempting not simply to display his musical virtuosity, but to animate with his song this chorus of nine female xoana, his own personal substitutes for the nine real Muses […]
Use xoanon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Xoanon means (historical) A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the case of 679, the well-known female figure of xoanon shape, it is often asserted that we see a more or less archaistic survival; […]
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.