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词汇 paean
释义 paean
noun[ C ]
 literaryuk /ˈpiː.ən/ us /ˈpiː.ən/
a song, film, or piece of writing that praises someone or something very enthusiastically: 赞歌;以颂扬为主题的影片(或短文);颂赞
The song is a paean to solitude and independence.这首歌是赞美独处和独立的。
Synonyms
encomiumformal
panegyricformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Praising and applauding
acclaim
acclamation
accolade
adulate
adulation
clap
compliment
encomium
enthrone
enthronement
eulogistic
eulogistically
hail
laurel wreath
ode
ooh
ooh and aahidiom
ovation
overpraise
puff

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Types of film, play, book etc.

Examples of paean


paean
But the poem is not merely a paean to nature: it describes the deer which roam the mountain and the huntsman who culls.
Subverting the conventionally gendered economy of vision, this poem celebrates the scopophilic pleasure of women gazing upon the beauty of a woman's body in a paean to female sexuality.
The thricerepeated 'lovely - lovely - lovely' is like a paean miming the hymn of worship 'holy, holy, holy'.
I do not want to sound a paean of triumph over this.
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That announcement was received with the same paeans of joy as the statement was received this evening.
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That is another paean to the detailed facets of the tax credit.
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I do not go along with the unqualified paean of praise which we have just heard.
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I am taking part in the debate primarily to deliver a personal paean of praise and a vote of thanks.
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That is a great paean of praise to the private enterprise capitalist system and how it works.
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I want to comment on the two extremes —first, the paeans of praise.
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But this is not something on which we should indulge in paeans of praise.
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He opened our proceedings today with the customary paeans of praise for the gas industry.
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I desire to join in the paean of praise to the right bon.
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I have my suspicions about this paean of praise.
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I hope we shall be singing paeans of victory, but we shall not be unless we pay more attention to this question of manpower.
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