Adonis
Pronunciation: /əˈdəʊnɪs/
Greek Mythology
- a beautiful youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone. He was killed by a boar, but Zeus decreed that he should spend the winter of each year in the underworld with Persephone and the summer months with Aphrodite.
- (as noun an Adonis) an extremely handsome young man: not all of us have the body of an Adonis