How do you use Lenaia in a sentence? See 3 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Lenaia in a sentence
Lenaia meaning
An ancient Athenian annual festival in honour of Dionysus Lenaios.
Using Lenaia
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient Athenian annual festival in honour of Dionysus Lenaios.
- In the example corpus, lenaia often appears in combinations such as: the lenaia, lenaia and.
Context around Lenaia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lenaia
- In this selection, "lenaia" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, playwriting stand out and add context to how "lenaia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the lenaia playwriting festival and but the lenaia and city. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lenaia" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lenaia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His writing has been featured in the Viral Plays Project and the Lenaia Playwriting Festival. (15 words)
But the Lenaia and City Dionysia included performances of both comedies and tragedies, and thus references to tragedy were highly topical and immediately relevant to the original audience. (28 words)
Acharnians lines 646-51 * Political theatre: The Lenaia and City Dionysus were state-sponsored, religious festivals, and though the latter was the more prestigious of the two, both were occasions for official pomp and circumstance. (35 words)
Acharnians lines 646-51 * Political theatre: The Lenaia and City Dionysus were state-sponsored, religious festivals, and though the latter was the more prestigious of the two, both were occasions for official pomp and circumstance. (35 words)
But the Lenaia and City Dionysia included performances of both comedies and tragedies, and thus references to tragedy were highly topical and immediately relevant to the original audience. (28 words)
His writing has been featured in the Viral Plays Project and the Lenaia Playwriting Festival. (15 words)
Example sentences (3)
His writing has been featured in the Viral Plays Project and the Lenaia Playwriting Festival.
Acharnians lines 646-51 * Political theatre: The Lenaia and City Dionysus were state-sponsored, religious festivals, and though the latter was the more prestigious of the two, both were occasions for official pomp and circumstance.
But the Lenaia and City Dionysia included performances of both comedies and tragedies, and thus references to tragedy were highly topical and immediately relevant to the original audience.
Common combinations with lenaia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: