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Phoebus

[ fee-buhs ]

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
  2. Literary. the sun personified.


Phoebus

/ ˈھːə /

noun

  1. Also calledPhoebus Apollo Greek myth Apollo as the sun god
  2. poetic.
    a personification of the sun
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ʳDZ·· [fi-, bee, -, uh, n, fee, -bee-], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Phoebus1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English Febus, Phebus, from Latin Phoebus, from Greek îDz “shining, radiant, bright,” used in Homer as epithet and name for Apollo; further origin uncertain
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Phoebus1

C14: via Latin from Greek Phoibos bright; related to phaos light
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All of this was a gleam in scientists’ eyes when my dad started to think about the accelerator—which he wanted to name Phoebus, for the Greek god of the Sun.

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For the second straight season, Phoebus bounced Brentsville District in the Class 3 state semifinal, this time in a 58-14 drubbing.

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This show, a collaboration with the Belgium-based Phoebus Foundation, offers a look at Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque paintings from the Southern Netherlands from the 15th through 17th centuries.

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John Phoebus, an attorney representing Leatherbury, declined to comment other than to confirm that his client is facing “serious traffic citations.”

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To the biochemist Phoebus Levene, one of Avery’s colleagues at Rockefeller University, the comically plain chemical composition of DNA—four bases strung along a chain—suggested an extremely “unsophisticated” structure.

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