English Explanatory Dictionary

Venus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The second planet in the Solar system.
  2. The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality.
  3. A female given name.
noun
  1. Sexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.
  2. Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).
  3. Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.
  4. Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.
noun
  1. Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.

Pronunciation

/ˈviːnəs/ /ˈvinəs/ [ˈvinɪ̈s] [ˈvɛ.nɐs] En-us-Venus.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-venus.wav

Word forms

Venus Venuses Veneres

Etymology

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

Synonyms

mul:♀ morning star Phosphorus Eosphorus Lucifer evening star Vesper Hesperus

Derived words

cleft of Venus crocus of Venus dimples of Venus mons Venus priestess of Venus protoVenus salt of Venus venereal Venerial Venerian Venus Bay Venus' comb Venus comb Venus flytrap Venusian Venuslike Venus mound venusquake Venus's basin Venus's basket Venus's bath Venus's comb Venus's flower basket Venus's girdle Venus's hair Venus's hair stone Venus's looking-glass Venus's pride Venus's purse Venus's shell Venus zone cross-barred venus elegant venus clam grey pygmy venus imperial venus lady-in-waiting venus striped venus clam sunray venus warty venus
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