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lao people's democratic republic |
lao-tse |
lao-tzu |
lao-zi |
laocoön |
laocoon
| laodicean
| laos
| laotian
| laotian capital
| laotian monetary unit
laocoon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun laocoon has 1 sense
- laocoon(n = noun.person) Array - (Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them; Array is a kind of mythical being
DEVIL DICTIONARY
laocoon
n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.ROGET THESAURUS
laocoon
Sculpture
N sculpture, insculpture, carving, statuary, high relief, low relief, bas relief, relief, relieve, bassorilievo, altorilievo, mezzorilievo, intaglio, anaglyph, medal, medallion, cameo, marble, bronze, terra cotta, papier-mache, ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware, cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon, satsuma, statue, cast, glyptotheca, sculptured, v, in relief, anaglyptic, ceroplastic, ceramic, parian, marble, xanthian.
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