Well attestedNamed from the place
Parnassus
noun · first attested 16th century
Poetry itself is a Greek mountain.
The world of poetry, taken collectively.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 16th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Mount Parnassus
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Parnassus
Mount Parnassus above Delphi was sacred to Apollo and the Muses. English uses it for the domain of poets.
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