Usually means: Hymn of joy or praise.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. paean: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paean: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paean: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paean: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paean: Vocabulary.com
  6. Paean, paean: Wordnik
  7. paean: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. paean: Wiktionary
  9. paean: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. paean: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paean: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Paean, paean: Dictionary.com
  13. paean: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Paean (god), Paean (horse), Paean: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Paean: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. paean: Rhymezone
  17. Paean: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. paean: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. paean: Free Dictionary
  20. paean: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. paean: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. paean: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. PAEAN: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paean: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paean: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PAEAN: Acronym Finder
  2. paean: A Word A Day

(Note: See paeans as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Ancient Greece, historical) A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.
noun:  (by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
noun:  (by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To sing a paean; to praise.

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