Advertisement
Advertisement
Linus
1[lahy-nuhs]
noun
Saint, died a.d. 76?, pope 67?–76?.
Linus
2[lahy-nuhs]
noun
Classical Mythology.
a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation.
Also called Linus song.a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
a male given name.
Example Sentences
Dr Linus Girdland Flink explained that it was only because of a tremendous stroke of luck that this skeleton was available to study and reveal its historic secrets.
Even Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, the operating system which kick-started the open source revolution in the early 1990s, noted at the Open Source Summit Europe in September that the “kernel maintainers are aging”.
Titles in the documentary spotlight section include Steven Feinartz’s “Are We Good?” on comedian Marc Maron, Adam Bhala Lough’s “Deepfaking Sam Altman,” examining AI, Kate Blackmore’s “Make It Look Real” on intimacy coordinators, Linus O’Brien’s “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror” about the classic 1975 midnight movie and Anayansi Prado’s “Uvalde Mom” on the aftermath of a school shooting in Texas.
Instead of airing on ABC, holiday classics featuring Charlie Brown, Linus and Snoopy are prominently featured on Apple’s streaming platform, sparking a Change.Org petition calling for the return of the characters to broadcast TV.
Gently but confidently, Linus assures him, “I can tell you what Christmas is all about.”
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse