| 单词 |
river-god |
| 释义 |
ˈriver-god Mythol. [f. river n.1 + god n. 1. Cf. Du. riviergod.] A tutelary deity supposed to dwell in and to preside over a river.
1661Cowley Of Greatness, The water every whit as clear.., as if it darted from..the Urn of a River-God. 1713Gay Rural Sports 7 The River-Gods and Nymphs about thee throng To hear the Syrens warble in thy Song. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 163 The river-god is represented on the Ephesian medals with this aquatic as one of his attributes. 1832Tennyson Œnone 37, I am the daughter of a River-God. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xiii, It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven. |

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