Venus Definition
vēnəs
noun
The goddess of love and beauty: identified with the Greek Aphrodite.
Webster's New World
A statue or image of Venus.
Webster's New World
A very beautiful woman.
Webster's New World
The brightest, sixth-largest planet in the solar system and the second in distance from the sun, with a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide and a very high surface temperature: diameter, c. 12,100 km (c. 7,520 mi); period of revolution, c. 224.7 earth days; period of rotation (retrograde), 243.01 earth days; symbol, ♀
Webster's New World
Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- urania
- genus Venus
- morning-star
- lucifer phosphor
- hesper
- hesperus
- aphrodite
- evening-star
- cytherea
pronoun
The second planet in our solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♀.
Wiktionary
(Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, and natural productivity; the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Venus
Noun
Singular:
Venus
Plural:
venusesOrigin of Venus
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Middle English from Old English from Latin love, Venus wen-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Translingual Venus (“a genus of clams"), from Latin
From Wiktionary
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From Latin Venus
From Wiktionary
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