Definition of: Parnassian

(pär·nas′ē·ən) adjective
1. Belonging or relating to Parnassus or the Parnassians.
2. Of or pertaining to poetry.
—noun A representative or member of a school of poetry founded in France during the last half of the 19th century, which emphasized the technical aspect of the art of poetry: so called from the title of its first collection of poems, Le Parnasse contemporain (1866). [<L Parnas(s) ius]
—Par·nas′si·an·ism noun