Hebe Definition

hēbē
noun
A Jew.
Webster's New World
The goddess of youth, daughter of Hera and Zeus: she is a cupbearer to the gods.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(Greek mythology) The goddess of youth, and a daughter of Zeus and Hera. Hebe was the cupbearer of the gods until she married her paternal halfbrother, Heracles, with who she had twin sons, Alexiares and Anicetus. Her Roman counterpart is Juventas.

Wiktionary
A female given name.
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(astronomy) Short for 6 Hebe, a main-belt asteroid.
Wiktionary
prefix

Relating to youth.

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Other Word Forms of Hebe

Noun

Singular:
Hebe
Plural:
hebes

Origin of Hebe

  • From Ancient Greek Ἥβη (Hēbē, literally “Youth, Prime of Life”).

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  • From Ancient Greek ἥβη (hebe, “youth”)

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  • Hebrew

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Hebe Sentence Examples

  • The immortal part of Hercules passes to Olympus, where he is reconciled to Hera and weds her daughter Hebe.

  • From 1821 to 1826 he published many separate poems of great beauty in the Aurora, Hebe, Aspasia, and other magazines of polite literature.

  • One of his greatest successes was as Benvenuto Cellini, in which he displayed his ability both as an actor and as a sculptor, really modelling before the eyes of the audience a statue of Hebe.

  • This has been supposed to point to a confusion between Aphrodite and Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera, Dione being an Epirot name for the last-named goddess.

  • In 218 B.C., by order of the Sibylline books, a lectisternium was prepared for Juventas and a public thanksgiving to Hercules, an association which shows the influence of the Greek Hebe, the wife of Heracles.

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Words Starting With

HHEHEB

Words Ending With

EBEEBE

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Hebe

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