traditional name of the supposed author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," from Latin Homerus, from Greek Homeros. It is identical to Greek homeros "a hostage," said to al [..]

short for home run, from 1868. It also meant "pigeon trained to fly home from a distance" (1880). As a verb in the baseball sense by 1946. Related: Homered; homering.

Homer [N] [S]heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or 1 quarter English = 10 ephahs ( Leviticus 27:16 ; Numbers 11:32 ) = a COR. (See OMER .) "Half a homer," a grain [..]

(~800 BCE) probably fictitious author of the ancient Greek epics The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Homer was a Greek poet of about the 9th century BC. He is thought to be the author of the two great epics the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. The 'liad' recounts the battles b [..]

heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or 1 quarter English = 10 ephahs (Lev. 27:16; Num. 11:32) = a COR. (See OMER.)

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(n) a base hit on which the batter scores a run(n) ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)(n) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 ba [..]

Called Melesigens (q.v.); the Man of Chios (see CHIOS); the Blind Old Man; Mæon’ids (q.v.), or Mæonius, either from his father Mæon, or because he was a native of Mæonia (Lydia). He is spoken [..]

n. "Homer," proper n.; not in MED. KEY: homer@n#propn

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thought to be a poet of eighth-century B.C. Greece and the presumed author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad tells the story of the 10-year Trojan War; the Odyssey tells the story of Ulysses’ return home to Ithaca after the Greek victory in the Trojan War.

From the Greek name Ὅμηρος (Homeros), derived from ὅμηρος (homeros) meaning "hostage, pledge". Homer was the Greek epic poet who w [..]