Associations to the word «Orpheus»

Wiktionary

ORPHEUS, proper noun. (Greek mythology) A Thracian musician and poet, who failed to retrieve his wife Eurydice from Hades.
ORPHEUS, proper noun. (rare) A male given name.

Dictionary definition

ORPHEUS, noun. (Greek mythology) a great musician; when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed.

Wise words

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson