"Pierian spring" meaning in All languages combined

See Pierian spring on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Pierian springs [plural]
Etymology: From the spring of the Muses in Greek mythology. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Pierian spring (plural Pierian springs)
  1. (idiomatic, chiefly literary) The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning. Wikipedia link: Pierian Spring Tags: idiomatic, literary Synonyms: Pierian Spring
    Sense id: en-Pierian_spring-en-noun-JWgTLmrl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Pierian spring meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From the spring of the Muses in Greek mythology.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pierian springs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pierian spring (plural Pierian springs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Poet's Father”, in Black Beetles in Amber",
          "text": "[…] a studious land\nWhere humming youth, intent upon the page,\nThirsting for knowledge with a noble rage,\nDrink dry the whole Pierian spring",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 2, Timothy W. Ryback, “First Chapter: Hitler’s Private Library”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-09",
          "text": "For him the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration. He drew deeply there, quelling his intellectual insecurities and nourishing his fanatic ambitions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning."
      ],
      "id": "en-Pierian_spring-en-noun-JWgTLmrl",
      "links": [
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "inspiration",
          "inspiration"
        ],
        [
          "learning",
          "learning"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly literary) The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Pierian Spring"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "literary"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Pierian Spring"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pierian spring"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From the spring of the Muses in Greek mythology.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pierian springs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Pierian spring (plural Pierian springs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English literary terms",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from toponyms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Poet's Father”, in Black Beetles in Amber",
          "text": "[…] a studious land\nWhere humming youth, intent upon the page,\nThirsting for knowledge with a noble rage,\nDrink dry the whole Pierian spring",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 2, Timothy W. Ryback, “First Chapter: Hitler’s Private Library”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-09",
          "text": "For him the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration. He drew deeply there, quelling his intellectual insecurities and nourishing his fanatic ambitions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "inspiration",
          "inspiration"
        ],
        [
          "learning",
          "learning"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly literary) The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "literary"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Pierian Spring"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Pierian Spring"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pierian spring"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.