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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "paean" in a sentence

    paean example sentences

    paean


    1. He is going to call his bar The Straw Donkey, a paean to millions of package trips and the souvenirs that litter lofts throughout his homeland


    2. She knew these images of maidens and young men were a paean to eternal


    3. An exultant paean to the skill and artistry of the builders escaped my throat unbidden


    4. It took all Irma’s will power to keep the promise she had made to Adele not to tell anyone about the alleged rape, so instead of reviling Zeno, she launched into a paean of praise for her dear friend Adele, their beloved ex-secretary who had died so tragically


    5. It is the Law which makes the Universe one grand paean of Harmony


    6. Another untried tactic was used to give the picture heft, to make it feel “important”—Alfred Newman, the studio’s musical director for twenty years by this time, was filmed conducting the 20th Century-Fox Symphony Orchestra on a soundstage dressed to look like an amphitheater, replete with Greek columns and blue sky, where they performed Newman’s classic paean to Manhattan, the soaring “Street Scene


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    Synonyms for "paean"

    encomium eulogy paean panegyric pean

    "paean" definitions

    a formal expression of praise


    (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)