paean
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You have scarcely turned the first page when you meet with Smith’s influential paean to the productivity-enhancing principle of the division of labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
It’s a wistful, country-folk paean that offers both a wry yet realistic assessment of the disposition of collections someone leaves the planet.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
C. Thi Nguyen considers that possibility in “The Score,” a paean to all kinds of games, from Risk to Super Mario Bros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
Cicero preferred the cretic – ∪ – which he says is the metrical equivalent of the paean.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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