Euterpean

adj, name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of one of the various Euterpean clubs or societies.

    "Up to January 1, 1892, of the three hundred and eighty-eight college students who had attended Muhlenberg, two hundred were Euterpeans."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the mythological figure Euterpe, or to music.

    "G. P. REED is well known to the patrons and professors of Music in the Euterpean city of Boston."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various musical, theatre, or literary societies, especially the Euterpean Society (A New York instrumentalist society and considered the oldest American musical society, active from 1799 to 1846).

    "The renowned "Philharmonic Society" of the present day was evolved from the "Euterpean”."

  2. 2
    Euterpean Hall, a theatre in New York City, on the east side of Broadway, near Walker Street, which later became the Broadway Theatre.

    "The business done at the Euterpean was very shy, and the prospect of any of the company — among whom, by-the-by, was Blakely, an old Park actor, as well as a National — was very doubtful."

Example

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"G. P. REED is well known to the patrons and professors of Music in the Euterpean city of Boston."

Etymology

From Euterpe + -an.

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