<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Pertaining to Mount Parnassus.</li><li>Pertaining to poetry.</li><li>Of, relating to, or noting a school of French poets of the latter half of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by a belief in art for art's sake, by an emphasis on metrical form, and by the repression of emotive elements; so called from <em>Le Parnasse Contemporain</em>, the title of their first collection of poems, published in 1866.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A member of the Parnassian school of French poets.</li></ul>