eoan
English
Alternative forms
- Eoan
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs) + -an. Compare Portuguese eoo.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /iːˈəʊən/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /iˈoʊən/
- Hyphenation: eo‧an
Adjective
eoan (not comparable)
- (poetic) Relating to the dawn.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to Liberty
- The morning-star
Beckons the sun from the Eoan wave.
- The morning-star
- 2015, Bill Reed, The Pipwink Papers:
- But we can note how wonderfully Pirip has woven the eoan light to recreate the images of life's grey, last sickly days […]
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to Liberty
- (poetic) Relating to the East.
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