pean
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /piːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Noun edit
pean (plural peans)
Adjective edit
pean (not comparable)
Translations edit
of black colour with gold spots on a coat of arms
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Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈpiː.ən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːən
Noun edit
pean (plural peans)
- Alternative spelling of paean.
- 1843 February, I. D. W., “Association”, in James E. Ridgely, editor, The Covenant and Official Magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States, I[ndependent] O[rder of] O[dd] F[ellows]: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Cause of Odd Fellowship, volume II, number 2, →OCLC, page 68:
- The barbarian, wandering in nature's wilds, plucking the fruits as they grow, or destroying the game for his meat, and quenching his thirst with the waters of the gurgling rill, may furnish the poet with a theme for a pean to the goddess of Natural Liberty; but he will be a barbarian still, and his children after him, will roam over the same uncultivated wastes, and sleep in the same caves and dens, until they learn to associate with others and combine their efforts for mutual good.
- 2007, Michael J. Mazarr, “The Existentialist Diagnosis”, in Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity, Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
- Antimodern romanticism is not primarily a complaint about lost nature; it is mainly a pean to lost values. Modernity is relativistic, the existentialists complain; it has lost a sense of real values, true courage, meaningful integrity.
Verb edit
pean (third-person singular simple present peans, present participle peaning, simple past and past participle peaned)
- Alternative spelling of paean.
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /piːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Noun edit
pean (plural peans)
- Alternative spelling of peen.
Verb edit
pean (third-person singular simple present peans, present participle peaning, simple past and past participle peaned)
- Alternative spelling of peen.
Anagrams edit
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pean
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pean
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin paeān, from Ancient Greek παιᾱ́ν (paiā́n).
Noun edit
pean m inan
- (Ancient Greece, historical) eulogy, paean (chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess)
- (by extension) paean (enthusiastic expression of praise)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from French péan. Named after French surgeon Jules-Émile Péan (1830–1898).
Noun edit
pean m inan
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Declension of pean
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pean n (plural peane)
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pean
- inflection of peer:
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