4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sapphic \Sap"phic\, a. [L. Sapphicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? Sappho.] 1. Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse. [1913 Webster] 2. (Pros.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sapphic \Sap"phic\, n. (Pros.) A Sapphic verse. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sapphic adj 1: a meter used by Sappho and named after her 2: of female homosexuality [syn: {lesbian}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 46 Moby Thesaurus words for "sapphic": AC-DC, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, amphierotic, autoerotic, bardic, bisexed, bisexual, bucolic, butch, deviant, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, effeminate, elegiac, epic, gay, heroic, homoerotic, homosexual, idyllic, lesbian, mannish, mock-heroic, narrative, pastoral, perverted, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, queer, rhapsodic, runic, skaldic, transvestite, tribadistic
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