VENUS
\vˈiːnəs], \vˈiːnəs], \v_ˈiː_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of VENUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
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genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
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One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
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Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
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The metal copper; - probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
By Oddity Software
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The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
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One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
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Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
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The metal copper; - probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
By Noah Webster.
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The second planet in order from the sun. It has no known natural satellites. It is one of the four inner or terrestrial planets of the solar system.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A bright planet whose orbit is between those of Mercury and the earth, hence second from the sun: formerly called Lucifer when star of morning, and Hesperus when star of evening.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(Latin myth.) The goddess of love: beauty and love deified: the most brilliant of the planets, second in order from the sun.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald