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pean

noun as in paean

Strongest match

Weak matches

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But the possibility that Britain could leave is already stirring dread in Brussels, especially because public disgust with Euro­pean governance is also rising in France and even Germany.

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Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World The vocal by the king of jazz lent a grandfatherly wisdom to this pean to nature’s purity.

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That’s because hundreds of Santa look-alikes were in the Euro­pean country for the 55th annual World Santa Claus Congress.

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It is not a pean of victory we sing but a requiem.

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He sang peans of victory over the downfall at Yorktown; he exalted the fame of Washington; he called down maledictions on the ship that bore the "worthless Arnold" from American shores.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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