Dione Definition

dī-ōnē
noun
A satellite of Saturn, sharing an orbit with a smaller satellite (Dione B)
Webster's New World

(organic chemistry, sometimes in combination) Diketone.

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The mother of Aphrodite by Zeus.
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pronoun

(astronomy) The fourth largest moon of Saturn.

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(Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.

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A female given name.
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Other Word Forms of Dione

Noun

Singular:
Dione
Plural:
diones

Origin of Dione

  • Greek Diōnē from Zeus Di- Zeus dyeu- in Indo-European roots

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

Dione Sentence Examples

  • The connexion of Zeus and Hera was probably not primitive, since Dione seems to have preceded Hera as the wife of Zeus at Dodona.

  • In it and around it were found the most interesting products of excavation - statuettes and decorative bronzes, many of them bearing dedications to Zeus Naius and Dione, and inscriptions, including many small tablets of lead which contained the questions put to the oracle.

  • In the Iliad, Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, a name by which she herself is sometimes called.

  • This has been supposed to point to a confusion between Aphrodite and Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera, Dione being an Epirot name for the last-named goddess.

  • According to Plato (Symposium, 180), there are two Aphrodites, " the elder, having no mother, who is called the heavenly Aphrodite - she is the daughter of Uranus; the younger, who is the daughter of Zeus and Dione - her we call common."

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