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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
priapus is a noun meaning "(classical mythology) god of male procreative power and guardian of gardens and vineyards". It carries one recorded sense.
(classical mythology) god of male procreative power and guardian of gardens and vineyards
classical mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for priapus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.