Epinicion

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

This word is acceptable for play in the UK dictionary that is being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A song or ode in celebration of triumph or victory
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A song of triumph.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A song of triumph; a poem in celebration of a victory; especially, in ancient Greece, a poem in honor of a victory in an athletic contest, as at the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, or Isthmian games. The poems of Pindar which have come down to us are almost all epinicia.
  • n. In the Gr. Ch., the triumphal hymn; the Sanctus (which see).
  •