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nepenthe
[ ni-pen-thee ]
noun
- a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble.
- anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness, especially of sorrow or trouble.
nepenthe
/ ɪˈɛθɪ /
noun
- a drug, or the plant providing it, that ancient writers referred to as a means of forgetting grief or trouble
- anything that produces sleep, forgetfulness, or pleasurable dreaminess
Derived Forms
- ԱˈԳٳ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- Ա·t· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of nepenthe1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of nepenthe1
Example Sentences
And Nepenthe and the Henry Miller Memorial Library are just down the road.
Normally more than 1,000 visitors a day are taking in the view and having a meal at the popular roadside destination Nepenthe, according to its general manager, Kirk Gafill.
And in general, this chapter has some fascinating looks at droid culture, including a trip to a bar called the Resistor, where the robots sip on a refreshing lubricant named Nepenthé.
It turns out that this old faithful servant of Plazir-15’s blue bloods is actually a secret radical, plotting to disrupt the planet’s cushy lifestyle by infecting the droids’ Nepenthé with malicious nanobots, designed to restore the machines to their original warlike programming.
“We’ve learned how to deal with events like this through hard-won experience,” said Kirk Gafill, the general manager of Nepenthe, a restaurant overlooking the Pacific that has been operated by his family for 74 years.
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