- a mountain in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth and near Delphi. About 8,000 feet (2,440 meters).
- a collection of poems or of elegant literature.
- the world of poetry or poets collectively: a rhymester striving to enter Parnassus.
- any center of poetry or artistic activity: Greenwich Village was once the Parnassus of the U.S.
- a mountain in central Greece, in NW Boeotia: in ancient times sacred to Dionysus, Apollo, and the Muses, with the Castalian Spring and Delphi on its slopes. Height: 2457 m (8061 ft)
- the world of poetry
- a centre of poetic or other creative activity
- a collection of verse or belles-lettres
