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- epithet
- A term used to characterize a person or thing
- A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name
- {n} an adjective denoting a quality
- word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "father aeneas"
- a characterizing word or phrase; used with music numbers to indicate a form of the publisher's name which differs from the form used in other contexts
- An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"
- descriptive word or phrase
- a descriptive word or phrase "The Great Emancipator," as a substitute for Abraham Lincoln Also, an abusive or contemptuous word or phrase; a slur
- {i} name, nickname, title, designation
- An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn
- A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person
- Term; expression; phrase
- Adjective used to describe the special characteristics of a person or object
- A short, poetic nickname in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase attached to the normal name Frequently, this technique allows a poet to extend a line by a few syllables in a poetic manner that characterizes an individual or a setting within an epic poem The Homeric epithet in classical literature often includes compounds of two-words such as, "fleet-footed Achilles," "Cow-eyed Hera," "Grey-eyed Athena," or "the wine-dark sea " In other cases, it appears as a phrase, such as "Odysseus the man-of-many-wiles," or whanot The historical epithet is a descriptive phrase attached to a ruler's name For instance, King Alfred the Great, Duke Lorenzo the Magnificent, Robert the Devil, Richard the Lionheart, and so on Not to be confused with epitaph or epigram
- An epithet is an adjective or short phrase which is used as a way of criticizing or praising someone. the religious issue which led to the epithet `bible-basher'. a word or short phrase used to describe someone, especially when praising them or saying something unpleasant about them (epitheton, from , from epitithenai )
- An adjective or adjectival phrase, usually attached to the name of a person or thing, such as "Richard the Lion-Hearted," Milton's "ivy-crowned Bacchus" in "L'Allegro," or Homer's "rosy-fingered dawn " Sidelight: With epithets, poets can compress the imaginative power of many words into a single compound phrase Sidelight: An epithet may be either positive or negative in connotation or allusion and sometimes may be freshly coined, like a nonce word, for a particular circumstance or occasion (Compare Antonomasia Kenning, Periphrasis)
- A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals an epithet does not occur