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Adonis

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Noun

1. adonis

any handsome young man

2. adonis, genus adonis

annual or perennial herbs

3. adonis

(Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone

Example Sentences:
'when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Adonis

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noun
1. Greek mythology
a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
2. 
a handsome young man

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Adonis

see synonyms of adonis
noun
1.  Greek Mythology
a handsome young man loved by Aphrodite: he is killed by a wild boar
2. 
any very handsome young man

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Adonis

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n.
1. Greek Mythology A strikingly beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite, who transformed the drops of his blood into anemones after he was killed by a boar.
2. often adonis A handsome young man.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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