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• n  a formal expression of praise
• n  (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)

• Rather than any lefty, neo-socialist, communitarian brainwashing, President Obama's speech to your kids reads like a paean to individual striving and free market capitalism, the .
• Twenty-seven years ago, Paul Simon sang a hugely popular paean to his Nikon camera.
• It is a "paean to transformative violence .

• encomium
• eulogy
• panegyric
• pean

News & Articles

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• Krause: Tim Tebow and the Patriots ... a match made in heaven
  OK. This would have been the perfect day for the "Bruins vs. Blackhawks" paean.
  June 11, 2013 - The Daily Item
• Body of quirk The life and comedy of Allan Sherman
  Fifty years ago, a hit single took America by storm, one unlike anything on the top of the charts: ”Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah,” a paean to summer camp angst, sung by a pudgy Jewish guy in horned-rims and a crew cut.
  June 6, 2013 - J Weekly

Quotes

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• Alain de Botton in National Post
  It was then that Diderot and d'Alembert published their 27-volume Encyclopédie, which was, de Botton writes, "in truth, a paean to the nobility of labour."
• Frank Gaffney in Washington Times
  ...sitting just to Mr. Moore's left at the Heritage session, Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, called the text Mr. Moore helped negotiate an "Orwellian paean to socialism."
• Stephen Greenhorn in Scotland on Sunday
  When I saw them on The Tube I was just gobsmacked,says Greenhorn. "I was sitting in Fauldhouse, West Lothian, watching two guys doing this paean to Scottish accents in a broad accent that you just never heard on the telly. Then they played...