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¹

[ hoh-mer ]

/ ˈhoʊ mər /

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noun

Baseball. home run.

homing pigeon.

verb (used without object)

Baseball. to hit a home run: The catcher homered in the ninth with one on to take the game.

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Origin of homer

¹

First recorded in 1865–70; home + -er¹

Words nearby homer

homeowner's policy, homepage, homeplace, home plate, home port, homer, home range, Homeric, Homeric laughter, homeroom, home row

Other definitions for homer (2 of 3)

homer²

[ hoh-mer ]

/ ˈhoʊ mər /

noun

a Hebrew unit of capacity equal to ten baths in liquid measure or ten ephahs in dry measure.

Also called kor.

Origin of homer

²

First recorded in 1525–35, homer is from the Hebrew word ḥōmer literally, heap

Other definitions for homer (3 of 3)

Homer

[ hoh-mer ]

/ ˈhoʊ mər /

noun

9th-century b.c., Greek epic poet: reputed author of the Iliad and Odyssey.

Winslow, 1836–1910, U.S. painter and illustrator.

a male given name.

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Words related to homer

accomplishment, coup, feat, gain, grand slam, success, win, ascendancy, attainment, conquest, hit, riot, score, sensation, shoo-in, splash, surmounting, takeover, tour de force, vanquishing

How to use homer in a sentence

• The Mariners followed the homer with two more singles, but Zimmermann got out of the inning, making him the only Baltimore starter to work at least five innings in each of his first three starts.

  Mariners sweep a pair from Orioles at Camden Yards|Nathan Ruiz|April 15, 2021|Washington Post

• On Opening Day, ace Max Scherzer gave up a homer on the first pitch of the season and allowed four homers to the first 10 Braves he faced.

  Should the Nationals be worried about their Big Three starters? Stay tuned.|Thomas M. Boswell|April 15, 2021|Washington Post

• In baseball, you don't see a guy put out his highlight reel from the All-Star Game with him striking out two times and then hitting the homer.

  Q & A with Tony Hawk: On pulling off his last Ollie 540, showing off mistakes and the truth about ‘Gleaming the Cube’|Geoff Edgers|April 11, 2021|Washington Post

• Chris Taylor followed two batters later with a towering homer to left, and the Nationals trailed by four.

  The Nationals get Patrick Corbin back but can’t keep up with the Dodgers in a 9-5 loss|Gene Wang|April 11, 2021|Washington Post

• In search of a muse last summer, during more benign times, you may recall I took a stab at pointing out the characters in Homer’s The Odyssey who would feel right at home in today’s bull market run.

  The cloud of impeachment hangs over the markets—even Bitcoin is sinking|Bernhard Warner|January 11, 2021|Fortune

• In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”

  Here’s the Lost Judd Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Episode, Penned by Judd Apatow|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• Following the Apatow references, Marge informs Homer that she needs to use the “Porta Potty. ”

  Here’s the Lost Judd Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Episode, Penned by Judd Apatow|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• The theory was first floated in the 1950s by Professor Homer Dubs of Oxford University.

  The Chinese Town Descended From Romans?|Nina Strochlic|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• Did McCarthy invent the portrayal of violence in fiction, or should that laurel go to Homer?

  Compliments Are Nice, but Enough With the Cormac McCarthy Comparisons|William Giraldi|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie have all been accidental political players in their nearly three decades on the air.

  Mr. Simpson Goes to Washington: How Homer Influenced Politics|Asawin Suebsaeng|August 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• This failure came as a bitter blow to the keen young soldier, who, after reading Homer, already imagined himself an Achilles.

  Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison

• This truth is as old as Homer, and its proofs are as capable of demonstration as a mathematical axiom.

  The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various

• He dropped his last name, thinking the Smith Troupe would not sound as well as Homer.

  The Cromptons|Mary J. Holmes

• Homer made better verses than Francoeur, and Homer only drank the water of the springs.

  Honey-Bee|Anatole France

• As for Homer Smith, his carcase might rot in the desert of Arizona, or anywhere, for aught he cared.

  The Cromptons|Mary J. Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for homer (1 of 2)

homer

/ (ˈhəʊmə) /

noun

another word for homing pigeon

US and Canadian an informal word for home run

British Dictionary definitions for homer (2 of 2)

Homer

/ (ˈhəʊmə) /

noun

c. 800 bc, Greek poet to whom are attributed the Iliad and the Odyssey. Almost nothing is known of him, but it is thought that he was born on the island of Chios and was blind

Winslow. 1836–1910, US painter, noted for his seascapes and scenes of working life

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for homer

An ancient Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He has often been considered the greatest and most influential of all poets. According to tradition, Homer was blind.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Homer - biography, poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey", works of the poet and photo

Biography

Homer - ancient Greek poet - storyteller, collector of legends, author of ancient literary works "Iliad" and "Odyssey".

Historians do not have exact data on the date of birth of the narrator. The place of birth of the poet remains a mystery. Historians believe that the most likely period of Homer's life is the 10th-8th centuries BC. One of six cities is considered the place of the possible homeland of the poet: Athens, Rhodes, Chios, Salamis, Smyrna, Argos.

More than a dozen other settlements of ancient Greece were mentioned by different authors at different times, in connection with the birth of Homer. Most often, the narrator is considered a native of Smyrna. Homer's works are addressed to the ancient history of the world, they do not mention contemporaries, which complicates the dating of the period of the author's life. There is a legend that Homer himself did not know the place of his birth. From the Oracle, the storyteller learned that the island of Ios was the birthplace of his mother.

Historians have doubts about the biographical data about the life of the narrator presented in medieval works. In works about the life of the poet, it is mentioned that Homer is the name that the poet received because of his acquired blindness. In translation, it can mean "blind" or "guided". At birth, his mother named him Melesigen, which means "born by the Meles River." According to one legend, Homer went blind when he saw the sword of Achilles. As a consolation, the goddess Thetis endowed him with the gift of singing.

There is a version that the poet was not a "slave", but a "leader". They called him Homer not after the narrator went blind, but on the contrary, he regained his sight and began to speak wisely. According to most ancient biographers, Melesigen was born to a woman named Cripheis.

The narrator spoke at the banquets of noble people, at city meetings, in the markets. According to historians, Ancient Greece experienced its heyday during the life of Homer. The poet recited separate parts from his works, traveling from city to city. He enjoyed respect, had lodging, food, and was not a dirty wanderer, which biographers sometimes portray him as.

There is a version that "Odyssey", "Iliad" and "Homeric hymns" are works of different authors, and Homer was only a performer. Historians consider the version that the poet belonged to a family of singers. In ancient Greece, handicraft and other professions were often passed down from generation to generation. In this case, any member of the family could perform under the name of Homer. From generation to generation, history and manner of performance were passed down from relative to relative. This fact would also explain the different period of the creation of the poems, and would clarify the issue with the dates of the life of the narrator.

The rise of a poet

One of the most detailed stories about the rise of Homer as a poet comes from Herodotus of Halicarnassus, whom Cicero called "the father of history." According to the ancient historian, the poet was named Melesigen at birth. He lived with his mother in Smyrna, where he became a student of the owner of the school, Phemius. Melesigen was very intelligent and well comprehended the sciences.

The teacher died, leaving the school to his best pupil. After working as a mentor for some time, Melesigen decided to deepen his knowledge of the world. A man named Mentes, who was originally from the island of Lefkada, volunteered to help him. Melesigen closed the school and went on a sea voyage on a friend's ship to see new cities and countries.

During the journey, the former teacher collected stories, legends, and asked about the customs of local peoples. Arriving in Ithaca, Melesigen felt unwell. Mentes left the satellite under the supervision of a reliable person and sailed home. Melesigenes went on his further journey on foot. On the way, he recited the stories he had collected during his travels.

According to Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the narrator finally went blind in the city of Colophon. There he took a new name. Modern researchers tend to question the story told by Herodotus, as well as the writings of other ancient authors about the life of Homer.

The Homeric Question

In 1795, Friedrich August Wolf, in his preface to the publication of the text of the poems of the ancient Greek storyteller, put forward a theory called the "Homeric Question". The main point of the scientist's opinion was that poetry in the time of Homer was an oral art. A blind wandering storyteller could not be the author of a complex work of art.

Homer composed songs, hymns, musical epics, which formed the basis of the Iliad and the Odyssey. According to Wolf, the finished look of the poem was obtained thanks to other authors. Since then, scientists involved in Homer's work have divided into two camps: "analysts" support Wolf's theory, and "Unitarians" are of the opinion that the epic is strictly united.

Blindness

Some researchers of Homer's work say that the poet was sighted. In favor of the narrator's lack of illness is the fact that philosophers and thinkers in Ancient Greece were considered people deprived of ordinary vision, but having the gift of looking into the essence of things. Blindness could be synonymous with wisdom. Homer was considered one of the creators of a comprehensive picture of the world, the author of the genealogy of the gods. His wisdom was obvious to everyone.

Ancient biographers brought out in their works an exact portrait of the blind Homer, but they composed their works many centuries after the death of the poet. Since no reliable data on the life of the poet has been preserved, the interpretation of ancient biographers could not be entirely correct. This version is supported by the fact that all biographies contain fictitious events involving mythical characters.

Works

The surviving ancient evidence gives an idea that in the era of antiquity the writings of Homer were considered a source of wisdom. The poems gave knowledge about all spheres of life - from universal morality to the basics of military art.

Plutarch wrote that the great commander Alexander the Great always kept a copy of the Iliad with him. Greek children were taught to read from the Odyssey, and Pythagorean philosophers prescribed some passages from the works of Homer as a means to correct the soul.

Homer is considered the author of not only the Iliad and the Odyssey. The narrator could be the creator of the comic poem "Margit" and "Homeric Hymns". Among other works attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller, there is a cycle of texts about the return of the heroes of the Trojan War to Greece: Cypria, The Capture of Ilion, Ethiopian, The Little Iliad, Returns. Homer's poems are distinguished by a special language that had no analogue in colloquial speech. The manner of narration made the tales memorable and interesting.

Death

There is a legend that describes the death of Homer. In old age, the blind storyteller went to the island of Ios. While traveling, Homer met two young fishermen who asked him a riddle: "We have what we did not catch, and what we caught, we threw away." The poet thought about solving the puzzle for a long time, but could not find the right answer. The boys caught lice, not fish. Homer was so annoyed that he couldn't solve the riddle that he slipped and hit his head.

According to another version, the narrator committed suicide, since death was not as terrible for him as the loss of mental acuity.

Interesting facts

• There are about a dozen biographies of the storyteller that have come down to our time from antiquity, but they all contain fairy-tale elements and references to the participation of ancient Greek gods in the events of Homer's life.
• The poet distributed his works outside Ancient Greece with the help of his students. They were called Homerids. They wandered around different cities, performing the works of their teacher in the squares.

• Homer's work was very popular in Ancient Greece. About half of all ancient Greek papyrus scrolls found are excerpts from various works of the poet.
• Narrator's works were transmitted orally. The poems that we know today were collected and structured into coherent works from disparate songs by the army of poets of the Athenian tyrant Peisistratus. Some parts of the texts were edited taking into account the wishes of the customer.

• In 1915 the Soviet prose writer Osip Mandelstam wrote the poem “Insomnia. Homer. Tight sails", in which he appealed to the narrator and the heroes of the poem "Iliad".
• Until the mid-seventies of the twentieth century, the events described in Homer's poems were considered pure fiction. But the archaeological expedition of Heinrich Schliemann, who found Troy, proved that the work of the ancient Greek poet is based on real events. After such a discovery, the admirers of Plato strengthened in the hope that one day archaeologists would find Atlantis as well.

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Who is Homer?

Among the many works in ancient Greek literature, two poems stand out - the Iliad and the Odyssey. Many people consider them generally the most outstanding masterpieces of world literature.

For a long time it was believed that they were written by a man named Homer, a blind poet who lived in Kios in Asia Minor. However, today most scholars doubt that Homer or any other person could have written such works alone.

No one knows how these poems were born, so the researchers build only guesses on this score. It is known that in ancient Greece, many poets traveled from city to city. They entertained rulers, nobles and commoners by reading poems composed by themselves or other authors.

One of the favorite themes of their work was the Trojan War, which was waged by the Greeks and the inhabitants of the city of Troy. Each poet in his own way spoke about this grandiose event for the ancient Greeks. However, at that time, perhaps, there was still no written language, and it was impossible to write down poems. So they were learned by heart and passed from mouth to mouth.

Then, about 800 BC. e., a certain great poet appeared. Perhaps it was Homer, or perhaps someone else. He collected together the old poetic stories about the Trojan War and created the poem "Iliad". It bears this name because of the other name of the city of Troy - Iliad.

A little later, the Odyssey saw the light of day in the same way. It is quite possible that its final version does not belong to the author of the Iliad, but to someone else. Be that as it may, these two poems were so superior to all others on the same topic that they were learned by almost all the poets who wandered around Greece, and told them throughout the country and even beyond its borders.

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Who is Homer?

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