- 1美男子；阿多尼斯（希臘神話裡的美少年；用來形容帥到讓人側目的年輕男人，帶點文學或調侃）
An Adonis is a very, very good-looking young man — the kind people turn to look at. The name comes from Adonis in old Greek stories: a beautiful youth whom the goddess of love adored. English borrowed the name and now uses it (often with a capital A, sometimes without) as a teasing or literary label, not as a scientific word. Magazines, jokes, and slightly old-fashioned praise use it: ‘he thinks he’s an Adonis.’ It can be kind, or it can poke fun at someone who is too pleased with his face. You would not use it for a child, and you would not use it for a woman. It is not a daily classroom word; it lives in stories, captions, and jokes.
組成From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis), the name of a beautiful youth in myth. English uses the name as a common noun for an extremely attractive young man.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Adonisname/əˈdəʊ.nɪs/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
- The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.
- 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun, A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type. The consensus of ancient opinion on this subject seems too great to be rejected as a mere fancy. So closely did the rites of Osiris resemble those of Adonis at Byblus that some of the people of Byblus themselves maintained that it was Osiris and not Adonis whose death was mourned by them.
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rareA male given name from Ancient Greek.
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A surname.
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An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
Adonisnoun/əˈdəʊ.nɪs/
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A beautiful man.
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