Aphrodite Definition

ăfrə-dītē
noun
The goddess of love and beauty.
American Heritage
The goddess of love and beauty: identified with the Roman Venus.
Webster's New World
A silver-spotted, large, brown butterfly (Speyeria aphrodite) of NE North America.
Webster's New World

(mineralogy) A soft and earthy mineral of a white or yellowish color, and with a waxy lustre, found at Langbanshytta in Sweden. It is a hydrated silicate of magnesia, and resembles meerschaum.

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(Greek mythology) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea. Her Roman counterpart is Venus.

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Origin of Aphrodite

  • From stem of Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós, “sea foam, froth”) (for its supposed resemblance) +‎ -ite.

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek Aphrodītē of Phoenician origin ʕṯtr in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphroditē).

    From Wiktionary

Aphrodite Sentence Examples

  • Aphrodite and Apollo preserved it from corruption and mutilation.

  • In Homer Ares is the lover of Aphrodite, the wife of Hephaestus, who catches them together in a net and holds them up to the ridicule of the gods.

  • The plasma may be pink (Magelona) or yellow (Aphrodite) in which cases the colour is owing to another pigment.

  • As the plant of purity it was contrasted with the rose of Aphrodite.

  • His name is preserved in the Sicilian Minoa, and his tomb was pointed out in the neighbourhood of Agrigentum, with a shrine above dedicated to his native Aphrodite, the lady of the dove; and in this connexion it must be observed that the cult of Eryx perpetuates to much later times the characteristic features of the worship of the Cretan Nature goddess, as now revealed to us in the palace of Cnossus and elsewhere.

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