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"paean":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": a joyous song or hymn of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, or triumph":[
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"unite their voices in a great paean to liberty",
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"\u2014 Edward Sackville-West"
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],
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": a work that praises or honors its subject : encomium , tribute":[
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"wrote a paean to the queen on her 50th birthday"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"his retirement party featured many paeans for his long years of service to the company",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Muti\u2019s concluding paean to the importance of culture was more heartfelt, if also more predictable. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 28 June 2022",
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"Not to mention asps, chickadees, raptors, ingenues, con artists and magicians, as well as a wide array of genres for nearly every taste and mood: poetry, history, memoir, fantasy, literary fiction and a paean to the natural world. \u2014 Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times , 2 May 2022",
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"His book, a paean to Mr. Carter, is ironic and smart, a social history and a poignant coming-of-age story. \u2014 Moira Hodgson, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"Composed shortly after Nazi Germany\u2019s defeat, there\u2019s little debate that Shostakovich did not deliver a noble paean to the people\u2019s struggle during the Great Patriotic War, upsetting Soviet officials. \u2014 Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Mar. 2022",
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"It\u2019s a paean to adventure on foot and the pleasures of traveling light in every sense \u2014 a welcome tonic for wearying times. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
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"Life on the Rocks is far more than a paean to coral. \u2014 Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books , 4 Nov. 2021",
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"Kelly's book is sublime, a true paean to the power of good food and even better love. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 11 Feb. 2022",
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"The meal, held before the latest wave of the pandemic, was conceived as both a celebratory pre-Christmas get-together and as a paean to the mother of all inspirations: nature. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Dec. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1589, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Latin, hymn of thanksgiving especially addressed to Apollo, from Greek paian, pai\u014dn , from Paian, Pai\u014dn , epithet of Apollo in the hymn":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8p\u0113-\u0259n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"accolade",
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"citation",
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"commendation",
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"dithyramb",
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"encomium",
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"eulogium",
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"eulogy",
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"homage",
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"hymn",
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"panegyric",
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"salutation",
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"tribute"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053307",
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"type":[
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"noun"
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]
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}
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}
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