Associations to the word «Racine»

Dictionary definition

RACINE, noun. French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
RACINE, noun. A city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats