Philemon
noun
- Bible a book of the New Testament, a letter from the Apostle Paul to his friend Philemon: abbrev. Philem, Phlm, or Phm
- Gr. Myth. the husband of Baucis
See Philemon in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(fĭ-lēˈmən, fī-)
noun Abbr. Philem. or
Phlm. or
Phm See Table at
Bible.
(fĭ-lēˈmən, fī-)
noun Greek Mythology A Phrygian peasant who together with his wife Baucis received with great hospitality Zeus and Hermes disguised as men. The gods rewarded the couple by turning their humble cottage into a temple and by turning them in their old age into intertwining linden and oak trees.
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