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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A short lyrical piece about love and wine.
2. 2
   Alternative form of anacreontic. alt-of, alternative

Adjective

1. 1
   Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter.
2. 2
   Alternative form of anacreontic. alt-of, alternative
3. 3
   Characterised by festivity and the celebration of love and/or drinking; bacchanalian, amorous.

   "[T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women."

Synonyms

All synonyms

balladbucolicdidacticdirgedramaticelegiac

Example

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"[T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women."

Etymology

From Late Latin Anacreonticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀνακρέων (Anakréōn), Anacreon a Greek poet.

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