imitations of the 6th-century B.C. Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote about love and wine. Thomas Moore translated Anacreon's odes in 1800. Abraham Cowley adapted them in his Anacreontics.
• (n.) A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine. • (a.) Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
A·nac`re·on'tic adjective [ Latin Anacreonticus .] Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey. 
(sometimes l.c.) of or in the manner of Anacreon. · (sometimes l.c.) convivial and amatory.