Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
- noun One of the three Graces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek myth, the joyful Muse, to whom is due the bloom of life.
- noun The twenty-third planetoid, discovered by Hind in London in 1852.
- noun In zoology: A genus of salps, giving name to the Thaliæ or Thaliacea: same as
Salpa , 1. - noun A genus of coleopterous insects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.
- noun One of the three Graces.
- noun One of the Nereids.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Greek mythology The
muse ofcomedy andidyllic poetry . - proper noun Greek mythology One of the three
Graces . - proper noun rare A female
given name .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry
- noun (Greek mythology) one of the three Graces
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Thalia.
Examples
-
The host of the show Thalia is a very famous Mexican pop singer.
Teaching Your Child Spanish As a Second Language « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
-
Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress, hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother - Denise, Henrys ex.
-
Thalia is a brave person who learned to adapt to the situation as a beggar while the courageous Ashyny proves her equal willing to die to keep her safe.
Daughter of Egypt-Constance O’Banyon « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
-
When Thalia is old enough she can’t wait to join the big-hearted letter writers and picture drawers that comprise Tanner’s new friends. jen Said,
-
The Thalia was a shabby old theatre on the upper west side with sticky floors and a small screen.
"Whatever happened to cinephilia?" Ann Althouse 2009
-
"How right to call Thalia to the feast:" and of some others he says:
Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
-
"I have --" he tried to speak; faltered, broke, went on: "I have -- the kindliest feelings toward you, 'Thalia" -- his last word was in a whisper.
The Way to Peace Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901
-
He did the same thing to his own hometown of Archer City, which McMurtry calls Thalia in his fiction.
unknown title 2009
-
As his "Thalia" was an "overture to an imaginary comedy," so this, to an imaginary tragedy.
-
In his house the proscribed man, always a ready writer, composed in verse and prose a defence of his position which he termed "Thalia".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.