ephebe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of ephebe
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (historical)An 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
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noun
- (historical)An 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
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(broadly)A young man; a youth.
“His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a blond ephebe. Tame essence of [Oscar] Wilde.”
“Indeed Tom was much still the ephebe, sharing boys with his friend though talking of the gravity of marriage.”
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Etymology
Via Latin ephēbus, from Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”), from ἐπί (epí, “early”) + ἥβη (hḗbē, “manhood”), late 19th c.
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