Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: phoebus
IPA transcription: [f'ibəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Apollo, Phoebus, Phoebus_Apollo
    Meaning: (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis
Usage examples
  • And I thought that the word of Phoebus, being divine and full of prophecy, would not fail.
  • She saw David walking at her side, and heard his laugh, sun-bright and glorious he seemed, her Phoebus Apollo--the father of her little son.
  • "Such dancing we have never seen," said Orpheus; "and your singer is a happy man; for Phoebus himself must have taught him, or else he is the son of a Muse; as I am also, and have sung once or twice, though not so well as he."
  • Some of the originals go back to the sixteenth century, and there are copies or reproductions of the two or three most famous hunting books of the Middle Ages, such as the Duke of York's translation of Gaston Phoebus, and the queer book of the Emperor Maximilian.