peri

Examples

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• I'll be downloading a copy to follow Peri's newest adventure.

  Blog text (28)

• He showed the black flag to Campari and Brilli-Peri when the Alfas were in the lead.

  Grand Prix (1966)

• Ten of the 34 patients presented with a 'peri-implant mass,' which was positive for ALCL cells.

  Academic text (2015)

• "Now in Iran you find the peri, but they're fallen angels, not demons."

  Fiction book (1993)

• Through the years, her main private nurse, Hadassah Peri, received $2,520 a week, or $131,040 a year.

  Blog text (15)

• A few days later, SweetiePie and I met up with Lisa of It's Just Peri and Tess of Driftwood, and none of us got pictures either.

  Blog text (21)

• Even his title, De Absentia, has a nuance lost in translation: the full title is On Abstinence from Animates or, in Greek, peri apokhes empsukhon.

  Academic text (2008)

• From the time when the Pseudo-Longinian treatise Peri Hypsous came into existence in the first century A.D. until the sixteenth century, when the treatise was published in Basel, European intellectuals were not interested in the sublime.

  Academic text (2002)

• In Persian folklore, the peri is often depicted as a beautiful fairy who helps mortals.

• The peri is a magical creature known for its enchanting beauty and graceful demeanor in legends.

Synonyms

F

fairy

vsperi

• Literature

560 2.7

A small imagined being that looks like a person and has magic

is a Persian supernatural being seen as especially beautiful

M

mythical creature

vsperi

6 5.9

An imaginary being like a dragon or unicorn with magical powers

is a beautiful Persian supernatural being rather than a general monster

M

mythological figure

vsperi

• Literature

1 5.8

A character from traditional stories who has magical powers

is a Persian beautiful supernatural being rather than any legendary character

Surface Forms

Etymology