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.

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pronoun

The second planet in our solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♀.

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(Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, and natural productivity; the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite.

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Other Word Forms of Venus

Noun

Singular:
Venus
Plural:
venuses

Origin of Venus

  • 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

  • From Translingual Venus (“a genus of clams"), from Latin

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin Venus

    From Wiktionary

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