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Venus Definition

Ve·nus (nəs)

noun pl. -·nuses

  1. Rom. Myth. the goddess of love and beauty: identified with the Greek Aphrodite
  2. a statue or image of Venus
  3. a very beautiful woman
  4. 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, ♀

Etymology: ME < L, lit., love < IE *wenos, desire < base *wen-, to strive for, attain > OE wine, friend, winnan, to win

Venus Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • trap: The one on the right here is quite nice - the flying camera thing narrowly avoids being swallowed by a venus fly trap!
  • fly: The secret with venus fly traps is not to keep them water logged.
  • flytrap: Then again, a venus flytrap looks nice from the outside, too.
Venus Quotes

   In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

—Spenser, Edmund

   Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra mi estilo, boto¤  n de pensamiento que busca ser la rosa; se anuncia con un beso que en mis labios se posa al abrazo imposible de laVenus de Milo. I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of theVenus de Milo.

—Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.

—Barrymore, Ethel

  So lovely fair was Hero,Venus'nun, As Nature wept, thinking she was undone.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Lady Venus on the settee of the horsehair sea!

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa

   Adding sound tomovies would be like putting lipstickon theVenus de Milo.

—Pickford, Mary originally  Gladys Mary Smith

Fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves. 291

—Dryden,John

WhereVenus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Venus, take my votive glass; Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be Venus never let me see.

—Prior, Matthew

Browse dictionary entries near Venus

  1. venule
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  3. venturous
  4. venturi (tube)
  5. venturi
  6. venturesome
  7. ventured
  8. venture capital
  9. venture
  10. Ventura
  1. Venus' flytrap
  2. Venus'-hair
  3. Venusberg
  4. Venusian
  5. ver
  6. Vera
  7. veracious
  8. veracity
  9. Veracruz
  10. veranda