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Adonis

[ uh-don-is, uh-doh-nis ]

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Classical Mythology. a youth slain by a wild boar but permitted by Zeus to pass four months every year in the lower world with Persephone, four with Aphrodite, and four wherever he chose.
a very handsome young man.

Adonis

/ əˈdəʊnɪs /

Greek myth a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite. Killed by a wild boar, he was believed to spend part of the year in the underworld and part on earth, symbolizing the vegetative cycle
a handsome young man

Adonis

In classical mythology , an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite , the goddess of love.

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By extension, an “Adonis” is any handsome young man.

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Origin of Adonis¹

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Origin of Adonis¹

C16: from Latin, via Greek Adōnis from Phoenician adōni my lord, a title of the god Tammuz; related to Hebrew Adonai

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Cyrus tweeted a series of photos posing with a Hand of Adonis sex toy on a a plane.

Brad Pitt, even in an impromptu cell phone photo, manages to look like Adonis on earth.

The latest Adonis cast in the part is 31-year-old model-turned-actor Jamie Dornan.

Then Calvin Klein aired a two-minute commercial featuring an Adonis flexing in underwear.

For a time he wrote criticism for Mawaqif, a publication founded by the Syrian poet (and perennial Nobel also-ran) Adonis.

Near me danced a lusty Adonis of five-and-forty, who was decidedly the best male performer of the party.

The blood of Tammuz, Osiris, and Adonis reddened the swollen rivers which fertilized the soil.

There is no direct evidence, however, to connect Tammuz's slayer with the boar which killed Adonis.

Like the many variants of it found in other countries, it was probably founded on a form of the Tammuz-Adonis myth.

But this legend was not followed by the other classical writers, who made the Anemone to be the flower of Adonis.

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