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CORINTHIAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A resident of Corinth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Corinthian" is a kind of...):

Greek; Hellene (a native or inhabitant of Greece)

Holonyms ("Corinthian" is a member of...):

Corinth; Korinthos (the modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens)

Derivation:

corinthian (of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure

Synonyms:

Corinthian; man-about-town; playboy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Corinthian" is a kind of...):

hedonist; pagan; pleasure seeker (someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Corinth (the modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens)

Derivation:

Corinth (the modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens)

Corinthian (a resident of Corinth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Corinthian order (the last Greek order; similar to the Ionic order except the capital is decorated with carvings of acanthus leaves)

Credits

 Context examples: 

My uncle welcomed him, and led some of the Corinthians up to be presented.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clear a path for a bang-up noble Corinthian! whilst the landlord, attracted by the shouting, came running out to greet us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Up went hundreds of curly brimmed Corinthian hats into the air, and the slope before us was a bank of flushed and yelling faces.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have become a bruiser and your uncle’s paid man, whilst you are a Corinthian upon town.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again he emitted the curious bell-like cry, and again the Corinthians and the fighting-men laughed and applauded him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He then took a bundle of smaller ribands of the same colour from his seconds, and walking round, he offered them to the noblemen and Corinthians at half-a-guinea apiece as souvenirs of the fight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle, in his fawn-coloured driving-coat, with all his harness of the same tint, looked the ideal of a Corinthian whip; while Sir John Lade, with his many-caped coat, his white hat, and his rough, weather-beaten face, might have taken his seat with a line of professionals upon any ale-house bench without any one being able to pick him out as one of the wealthiest landowners in England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The genelmanly man that eats with a fork, ’im what looks like a Corinthian, only that the bridge of ’is nose ain’t quite as it ought to be, that’s Dick ’Umphries, the same that was cock of the middle-weights until Mendoza cut his comb for ’im.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now it suddenly made its presence apparent by a few heavy drops of rain, thickening rapidly into a sharp shower, which filled the air with its hiss, and rattled noisily upon the high, hard hats of the Corinthians.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A draw! shrieked every one, and the crowd in an instant dispersed in every direction, the pedestrians running to get a good lead upon the London road, and the Corinthians in search of their horses and carriages.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)