Homer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HOMER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hit a home run
• hit a home run.
• score a home run in baseball
NOUN:
• (8th century BC), Greek epic poet. He is traditionally held to be the author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", though modern scholarship has revealed the place of the Homeric poems in a preliterate oral tradition. In later antiquity Homer was regarded as the greatest poet, and his poems were constantly used as a model and source by others.
• homing pigeon
• A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
• See Hoemother.
• A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
• a base hit on which the batter scores a run
• ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
• an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs
• United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910)
• pigeon trained to return home

Words related to HOMER

homered13 homering14 homers11

How to use HOMER in a sentence

• The cause was heard before Rhadamanthus, and Homer came off victorious.
• Hector and Andromache existed only in the brain of Homer, who was in many respects thousands of years ahead of his contemporaries.
• In reading Homer we are struck by the utter absence not only of stories of romantic love but of romantic love-stories.
• He wrote a life of Homer, which was prefixed to the Translation, although stiff in style, and fabulous in statement.
• The nearest rival of Homer, I believe, if Homer can have a rival, is Jean Jacques Rousseau.
• Diderot compared Richardson, as the father of the English novel, to Homer, father of epic poetry.
• Early philosophers, like Anaxagoras and Metrodorus, had found in Homer and mythology hidden meanings.
• In Greek and Latin poetry, you have read or will read at school, Virgil, Terence, Horace, Anacreon, Theocritus, Homer, Euripides, Sophocles.
• Homer well knew that neither gold nor silver would influence the heart of a young and generous warrior, but that persuasion would.
• Homer shows Ulysses and Virgil in like manner shows Aneas upon his entrance into the other world mutually recognising his old comrades and recognised by them.
• After once being initiated into the mysteries of Greece by Homer, the work at Greek was no longer tedious.
• The famous judgment of Paris, the beginning of evil to Achaeans and Ilian men, is only mentioned once by Homer, late, and in a passage of doubtful authenticity.
• Homer always escapes our psychological problems by throwing the weight of our deeds and misdeeds on a God or a Goddess, or on destiny.
• Socrates, and Plato, and Homer, Apelles and Zeuxis, are all there too.
• That simile was conceived in the spirit of Dan Homer, but delivered in that of Kit North.
• It is not to learn what you think Homer or Dante might have said that the reader comes to your translation, but to see what they really said.
• Homer makes Zeus resent the accusation that evil comes from the Gods, 690-l.
• One cannot compare Homer with the Mahabharata, or Kalidas with Euripides.
• In Homer and Sophocles, Arnold sought what we may call the Greek spirit.
• The matchless papers on Spenser and Homer represent one class, and the articles on Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt the other.
• And I can hardly be mistaken in saying that sweet sauces are nowhere mentioned in Homer.
• BRADSHAW holds a position comparable only to the position of HOMER.
• We know what is meant by Circe and Athene, but Homer did not.

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