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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Par•nas•si•an (pär nas′ē ən),USA pronunciation adj. - Place Namespertaining to Mount Parnassus.
- Literaturepertaining to poetry.
- Literatureof, pertaining to, or noting a school of French poets of the latter half of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by a belief in art for art's sake, by an emphasis on metrical form, and by the repression of emotive elements: so called from Le Parnasse Contemporain, the title of their first collection of poems, published in 1866.
n. - Literaturea member of the Parnassian school of French poets.
- Latin Parnassi(us) of Parnassus + -an
- 1635–45
Par•nas′si•an•ism, Par•nas′sism, n. |