doryphoros Meaning, Definition & Usage

Do*ryph"o*ros noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. , lit., spear bearing; a spear + to bear.
Definitions
  1. (Fine Arts) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

Webster 1913