paean has definitions from the fields of music,fine art,Greek antiquity
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[ noun ] a formal expression of praise

Used in print

("Editorials"...)

When East_Germans fled to the West by the thousands , paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists .

Related terms

praise eulogize

2
[ noun ] (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)

Synonyms

pean

Related terms

hymn antiquity Greece

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