Usually means: Metrical foot, one long, three short.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. paeon: Merriam-Webster
  2. paeon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paeon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paeon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paeon: Wordnik
  6. paeon: Wiktionary
  7. paeon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. paeon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. paeon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Paeon, paeon: Dictionary.com
  11. Paeon (Thrace), Paeon (myth), Paeon (prosody), Paeon (son of Antilochus), Paeon (son of Poseidon), Paeon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Paeon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Paeon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. paeon: FreeDictionary.org
  15. paeon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. PAEON: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Paeon: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paeon)

▸ noun:  (poetry) A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable.

Similar:
paeonics, proceleusmatic, anceps, pentapody, pyrrhic, spondee, Priapean, monopody, palimbacchius, penthemimeris, more...

Adjectives:
fourth, first, third, second, 1st, long, immortal, final

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    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     burgundy,     carmine, more...

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Similar:
paeonics, proceleusmatic, anceps, pentapody, pyrrhic, spondee, Priapean, monopody, palimbacchius, penthemimeris, more...

Adjectives:
fourth, first, third, second, 1st, long, immortal, final

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     burgundy,     carmine, more...



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