7 April 2017

peri

[peer-ee]

noun, plural peris.

1. one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
2. any lovely, graceful person.

Origin of peri

Persian, Middle Persian, Avestan

1770-1780; < Persian perī, variant of parī fairy, Middle Persian parīk, Avestan pairikā witch

Peri

[pe-ree]

noun

1. Jacopo [yah-kaw-paw] (Show IPA), 1561–1633, Italian composer.
peri-
1. a prefix meaning “about” or “around” ( perimeter, periscope), “enclosing” or “surrounding” ( pericardium), and “near” ( perigee, perihelion), appearing in loanwords from Greek ( peripeteia); on this model, used in the formation of compound words ( perimorph).

Origin

< Greek, prefixal use of perí (adv. and preposition)

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Examples from the Web for peri

Contemporary Examples

peri, the top student in the ninth grade, waved off our translator and made it through most of the interview without help.
Afghan Women’s Uncertain Future
Ann Marlowe
December 2, 2010

peri somehow learned the English keyboard and used the program.
Afghan Women’s Uncertain Future
Ann Marlowe
December 2, 2010

Historical Examples

The very bouquet of flowers—some peri ‘s hand had placed beneath the shrine—withered and faded, was there still.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.
Various

Anagram

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Today’s quote

Where’s your will to be weird?

– Jim Morrison

On this day

7 April 1933 – beer available again in 19 U.S. states since it had been banned on 16 January 1920.

7 April 1947 – death of Henry Ford, American industrialist and car maker. Born 30 July 1863.