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The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

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  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • GODDESS
    1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
  • CELEBRATE
    1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. 2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
  • IMPORTANTLY
    In an important manner.
  • CELEBRATION
    The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
  • HONOR
    1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
  • HONORARY
    1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
  • ANCIENTNESS
    The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
  • ANCIENTLY
    1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
  • CELEBRATED
    Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay. Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; noted; famed; renowned; illustrious. See Distinguished.
  • HONORLESS
    Destitute of honor; not honored. Bp. Warburton.
  • IMPORTANT
    1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman. 2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing;
  • HONORARIUM; HONORARY
    An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann. (more info) 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand
  • HONORER
    One who honors.
  • CELEBRATOR
    One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.
  • HONORIFIC
    Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.
  • FESTIVAL
    Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful. I cannot woo in festival terms. Shak.
  • ANCIENTRY
    1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
  • HONORABLY
    1. In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden. 2. Decently; becomingly. "Do this message honorably." Shak. Syn. --
  • PANATHENAEA
    The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.
  • TUTELAR; TUTELARY
    Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses. This, of all advantages, is the greatest . . . the most tutelary of morals. Landor.
  • SEA GODDESS
    A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
  • DISHONOR
    The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
  • RECELEBRATE
    To celebrate again, or anew. -- Re*cel`e*bra"tion, n.
  • DISHONORABLE
    1. Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base. 2. Wanting in honor or esteem; disesteemed. He that is dishonorable in riches, how much more
  • ATHENEUM; ATHENAEUM
    A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students. 2. A school founded at Rome by Hadrian. 3. A literary or scientific association or club. 4. A building or an apartment where a

 

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