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单词 ephebe
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Definition of ephebe in English:

ephebe

noun ɛˈfiːbˈɛfiːb
  • (in ancient Greece) a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A sleek statuette of a naked ephebe, with narrow limbs and a small convex belly, curiously anticipates, except in one small detail, Degas's nude study for an adolescent ballerina, six rooms and 4,000 years away.
    • An ephebe describes a teenage boy in ancient Greece (but could also describe most of the male characters in the musical Grease).
    • Finally, a Cretan youth was allowed only one garment, the Attic ephebe wore a black garment, and in certain mystery cults initiates were required to wear white clothing.
    • By the 330s, ephebes received a full year of training in hoplite fighting, archery, javelin-throwing, and catapult-firing, followed by a year of patrol duty.
    • It is a gorgeously effete, nearly 3-foot bronze sculpture of a supplicant ephebe wearing a laurel crown, his thin arms upraised.

Derivatives

  • ephebic

  • adjectiveɛˈfiːbɪkɪˈfiːbɪk
    • Athens went some way towards bridging the social and cultural gap between these types of fighting men by reforming ephebic training, but the gulf between Greeks and Macedonians remained wide.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You can't be too careful, with uncastrated, ephebic sophomore mules, wherever you go in the world.
      • Another Athenian relief which shows Herakles next to his columnar shrine, and a boy in front of him, probably refers to the oinisteria and the ephebic introduction.

Origin

Late 19th centuryː via Latin from Greek ephēbos 'adolescent boy', from epi 'near to' + hēbē 'youth, early manhood'.

 
 

Definition of ephebe in US English:

ephebe

noun
  • (in ancient Greece) a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is a gorgeously effete, nearly 3-foot bronze sculpture of a supplicant ephebe wearing a laurel crown, his thin arms upraised.
    • An ephebe describes a teenage boy in ancient Greece (but could also describe most of the male characters in the musical Grease).
    • By the 330s, ephebes received a full year of training in hoplite fighting, archery, javelin-throwing, and catapult-firing, followed by a year of patrol duty.
    • A sleek statuette of a naked ephebe, with narrow limbs and a small convex belly, curiously anticipates, except in one small detail, Degas's nude study for an adolescent ballerina, six rooms and 4,000 years away.
    • Finally, a Cretan youth was allowed only one garment, the Attic ephebe wore a black garment, and in certain mystery cults initiates were required to wear white clothing.

Origin

Late 19th century ː via Latin from Greek ephēbos ‘adolescent boy’, from epi ‘near to’ + hēbē ‘youth, early manhood’.

 
 
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