/ˈviːnəs/, /ˈvinəs/, [ˈvinɪ̈s]
OriginFrom Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.
- The second planet in the Solar system.
“Near-synonyms: morning star, Phosphorus, Eosphorus, Lucifer; evening star, Vesper, Hesperus”
“Venus rises on the 1st day 1/4 to 5 a.m., and 4h. 25m. a.m. on the last day. […] She is now beginning to move northward.”
“The robot craft, the fifth from the Soviet Union to land on Venus, is a module detached from Venera 13. It plunged through the dense, baking-hot carbon dioxide atmosphere and touched down in the footh”
- RomanThe goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality.
“Of all the classic Venuses known to us in modern times, this Venus of Milo is certainly the most popular.”
“To call either or both of them by the name of Venus seems to me too positive; for although the theory of love which they embody was unquestionably associated with the two Venuses in Plato, ‘one draped”
“Now from Ficino’s In Platonis Convivium we learn that for the Neoplatonic philosopher there are two Veneres, not one. The first of these ‘twin Veneres’ is the Venus coelestis, born of Coelus alone, wi”
- A female given name.
“A mirrored [Venus] Williams, shown from behind and in profile, wears a tennis skirt made of raffia and the Wimbledon trophy dish refashioned as a collared chestplate apropos for a warrior superhero. [”
- poetic, uncountableSexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.
“Immoderate Venus in excess, as it is a cause, or in defect; so, moderately used, to some parties an only help, a present remedy.”
- obsolete, uncountableCopper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).
“CRYSTALS of Venus or of copper, called also vitriol of Venus, is copper reduced into the form of vitriol by spirit of nitre, or by dissolving verdegris in good distilled vinegar, till the acid be satu”
“Another pair of terms which caused some confusion were Spirit of Saturn and Spirit of Venus, names suggesting compounds of lead and copper respectively. Jean Beguin described the preparation from mini”
“The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo h”
- countableAny depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.
“Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arched like rainbows, and Cinderellan in size.”
- countableAny Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.
“While the goddess statues obviously did function in a very public, domestic context, there is no evidence that they were androgynyous or that they were the primary cult of importance. There are probab”
“However, a number of well-crafted studies in recent years have forcefully questioned—and perhaps refuted—the view that the Venuses were simply or solely goddesses.”
“Her proportions, the stylistic elements, the choice of anatomical elements represented are characteristic of the Aurignacian or Gravettian Venuses, known especially from the statuary of Central and Ea”
- Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.
FormsVenuses(plural) · Veneres(plural) · venuses(plural)