Adonis Definition

ə-dŏnĭs, ə-dōnĭs
noun
A strikingly beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite, who transformed the drops of his blood into anemones after he was killed by a boar.
American Heritage
A handsome young man loved by Aphrodite: he is killed by a wild boar.
Webster's New World
A handsome young man.
American Heritage
Any very handsome young man.
Webster's New World
A beautiful man.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • genus Adonis
pronoun

(Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.

Wiktionary
(rare) A male given name.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Adonis

Noun

Singular:
Adonis
Plural:
adonises

Origin of Adonis

  • Greek Adōnis of Phoenician origin ℵd in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Adōnis).

    From Wiktionary

Adonis Sentence Examples

  • Aphrodite, charmed by his beauty, hid the infant in a box and handed him over to the care of Persephone, who afterwards refused to give him up. On an appeal being made to Zeus, he decided that Adonis should spend a third of the year with Persephone and a third with Aphrodite, the remaining third being at his own disposal.

  • Its political importance now ended, but its temple of Adonis and Aphrodite (Venus Amathusia) remained famous in Roman time.

  • If Jackson was Adonis, then Sarah was Aphrodite.

  • He was confused with Pan, Sabazios, Men and Adonis, and there were resemblances between the orgiastic features of his worship and that of Dionysus.

  • His resemblance to Adonis has led to the theory that the names of the two are identical, and that Attis is only the Semitic companion of Syrian Aphrodite grafted on to the Phrygian Great Mother worship (Haakh, Stuttgarter-Philolog.- Vers., 18J7, 176 ff.).

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