Adonis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADONIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a handsome young man
• an extremely handsome young man
• a beautiful youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone. He was killed by a boar, but Zeus decreed that he should spend the winter of each year in the underworld with Persephone and the summer months with Aphrodite.
• beautiful young man
• A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
• A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
• A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant\'s eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
• any handsome young man
• annual or perennial herbs
• (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone

Words related to ADONIS

adonises9

Words that contain ADONIS

adonise8 adonised10 adonises9 adonising11

How to use ADONIS in a sentence

• It was some time before this Adonis was quite satisfied with himself.
• It is near Gibyle, called by the Greeks Byblus, a place once famous for the birth and temple of Adonis.
• In the Mysteries of Adonis, which originated in Phoenicia, and were afterwards transferred to Greece, the death and resurrection of Adonis was represented.
• A part of the legend accompanying these mysteries was, that when Adonis was slain by a wild boar, Venus laid out the body on a bed of lettuce.
• The Mysteries of Adonis, principally celebrated in Phoenicia and Syria.
• The second day was devoted to mirth and joy for the return of Adonis to life.
• The idol was the same as the Phoenician Adonis, and the Mysteries of the two were identical.
• Extremely beautiful as the Adonis undoubtedly is, the strained, distorted attitude seems to require some explanation.
• The Babylonian myth of Tammuz, the dying god, bears a close resemblance to the Greek myth of Adonis.
• Venus does not know that Adonis is dead when she speaks thus.
• Through her temporary neglect, Adonis falls victim to a conspiracy of the gods.
• Thou sleepest now in the land of Adonis, near the holy Byblus and the sacred stream where the women of the ancient mysteries came to mingle their tears.
• Once absorbed in revising his Adonis, he suffered his leg to be burnt for some time, without any sensation.
• The Adoniac or Syrian cults were similar, Adonis being killed, but revived to point to life through death.
• It was all very well for Venus to make the promise, but when making it she knew that Adonis would not keep her to her word.
• It was so called from the Amonians, who settled here under the name of Adonians, and who founded the city Adonis.
• Adoni, called by the Greeks Adonis, was the lover of Venus.
• The Mysteries of Atys in Phrygia, and those of Cybele his mistress, like their worship, much resembled those of Adonis and Bakchos, Osiris and Isis.
• The Sun as Adonis was worshipped in Byblos and about Mount Libanus.
• Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks are personifications of the Sun, 594-u.
• Adonis or Thammuz, death and resurrection in Mysteries, 406-m.
• Phoenician Mysteries in honor of death and resurrection of Adonis, 406-m.
• Zetesis or search of Osiris or Adonis, that is of Bootes, 484-u.
• That lucky rascal was a good-looking native, a much larger youth than the aspiring Don Blas, and I pictured him to the padre as an Adonis.
• When we examine this new idea, the Osiris belief, we find its earliest form nothing more nor less than the common tammuz or Adonis story of the Semites.
• The gardens of Adonis were so empty that they afforded proverbial expression, and the principal part thereof was empty spaces, with herbs and flowers in pots.
• He certainly was no longer young, and he had never been an Adonis.
• Contemporary writers also complain that, however brutal and ugly they were, there were always women ready to adore them and to consider them as beautiful as Adonis.
• This Adonis never for one moment laid aside his role.
• He died as a beautiful youth, a kind of Adonis, although he was fifty years old when he was stabbed at the stage-door of the Adelphi Theater.
• The Divinity who gives his life for his flock is no longer just an ordinary Bull or Lamb, but Adonis or Osiris or Dionysus or Jesus.
• And now, from behind the snowy draperies, trooped such forms as Adonis beheld when he lay on the lap of Venus.
• We were sitting in the Gardens of Adonis once occupied in part by the golden house of Nero, here where St.

Similar words containing ADONI without suffix s

adonise8 adonize17 adonised10 adonises9 adonized19 adonizes18 adonising11 adonizing20

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