Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young man who pined away in love for his own image in a pool of water and was transformed into the flower that bears his name.
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Amaryllidaceae — thedaffodils . - proper noun Greek mythology A youth who spurned the love of
Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another success for the Powell-Pressburger team, "Narcissus" is an absorbing, finely acted British melodrama about the secular problems facing a new mother superior in an unfamiliar, potentially hostile environment.
John Farr: They Sure Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: A Tribute To Deborah Kerr John Farr 2010
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Another success for the Powell-Pressburger team, "Narcissus" is an absorbing, finely acted British melodrama about the secular problems facing a new mother superior in an unfamiliar, potentially hostile environment.
John Farr: They Sure Don't Make 'Em Like They Used to: A Tribute to Deborah Kerr John Farr 2010
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Another success for the Powell-Pressburger team, "Narcissus" is an absorbing, finely acted British melodrama about the secular problems facing a new mother superior in an unfamiliar, potentially hostile environment.
John Farr: They Sure Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: A Tribute To Deborah Kerr John Farr 2010
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Trombone Mose, the biggest negro, was set busy with a can of paint obliterating the name Narcissus from the bow, and substituting the name Hula Hula, and the others congregated aft and became intently involved in a game of craps.
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a can of paint obliterating the name Narcissus from the bow, and substituting the name Hula Hula, and the others congregated aft and became intently involved in a game of craps.
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As a tulipant to the sun (which our herbalists calls Narcissus) when it shines, is
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She fancies that she loves a certain contemptible puppy called Narcissus; but I have made very short work with him.
The Green Fairy Book 2003
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His conversation with Terence Reardon had convinced him that the Narcissus was a misunderstood ship -- that she had been poorly managed and was the victim of a false financial policy.
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She fancies that she loves a certain contemptible puppy called Narcissus; but I have made very short work with him.
The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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Aristobulus and Narcissus themselves, some think, were absent, or lately dead; others think they were unbelievers, and such as did not themselves embrace Christianity; so Pareus: and some think this Narcissus was the same with one of that name who is frequently mentioned in the life of Claudius, as a very rich man that had a great family, but was very wicked and mischievous.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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