Vulcan Definition

vŭlkən
noun
The god of fire and of metalworking: later identified with the Greek Hephaestus.
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(slang, pejorative) A person who seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.

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pronoun

(Roman mythology) The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, principally blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.

The goddess Venus was the wife of Vulcan.
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(astronomy, historical) A hypothetical planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun in a 19th-century hypothesis.

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A town in southern Alberta, Canada.

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A fictional inhabited planet.

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Other Word Forms of Vulcan

Noun

Singular:
Vulcan
Plural:
vulcans

Origin of Vulcan

  • From Latin Vulcānus, of Etruscan origin, but unknown meaning. Cognate with Persian گلخن (golxan, “stove (of a public bath), furnace").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Vulcan (etymology 1), from the Star Trek TV series of the 1960s.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin Volcānus, Vulcānus

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

Vulcan Sentence Examples

  • I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god Terminus.

  • Hercules is supposed to have visited Italy on his return from Erythia, when he slew Cacus, son of Vulcan, the giant of the Aventine mount of Rome, who had stolen his oxen.

  • Vulcan was the most important - perhaps in early times the only - deity worshipped at Ostia, and the priesthood of Vulcan was held sometimes by Roman senators.

  • To the south-west of the Forum are the remains of three small temples, one dedicated to Venus, and a well-preserved Mithraeum, with mosaics representing the seven planets, &c. To the south-west again is the conspicuous brick cella of a lofty temple, on arched substructures, generally supposed to be that of Vulcan, with a threshold block of africano (Euboean) marble over 15 ft.

  • The city was burnt, we are told, with the exception of the temples of Vulcan and Juno - the massive Etruscan terrace-walls, naturally, can hardly have suffered at all - and the town, with the territory for a mile round, was allowed to be occupied by whoever chose.

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Words Starting With

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