parnassus Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry
    Mount Parnassus; Liakoura.
    • Liakoura is the modern name of Mount Parnassus

WordNet


Par*nas"sus noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. .
Definitions
  1. (Anc. Geog. & Gr. Myth.) A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.

Webster 1913