adonis

Definitions


[əˈdəʊnɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a beautiful youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone. He was killed by a boar, but Zeus decreed that he should spend the winter of each year in the underworld with Persephone and the summer months with Aphrodite

- an extremely handsome young man
(e.g: not all of us have the body of an Adonis)


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definition by Oxford Dictionaries