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Venus
Definitions
- 1 The second planet in the Solar system.
"Near-synonyms: morning star, Phosphorus, Eosphorus, Lucifer; evening star, Vesper, Hesperus"
- 2 The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality. Roman
"Of all the classic Venuses known to us in modern times, this Venus of Milo is certainly the most popular."
- 3 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. […] Pruitt sees “a fertile space of reflection” between his two Venuses. “My hope,” he said, “is that the duality of the portrait gives us this sense of a person looking back at themselves, considering where they came from and where they’re going.”"
- 1 Sexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love. poetic, uncountable
"Immoderate Venus in excess, as it is a cause, or in defect; so, moderately used, to some parties an only help, a present remedy."
- 2 Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.
- 3 Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element). obsolete, uncountable
"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 saturated; it is very caustic and used to eat off proud flesh. It is also used by painters, and manufacturers, and sold under the name of distilled vinegar. See CHEMISTRY."
- 4 Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting. countable
"Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arched like rainbows, and Cinderellan in size."
- 5 Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. countable
"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 probably just as many phalli in the Paleolithic as there are Venuses."
Etymology
From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.
From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.
From translingual Venus (“a genus of clams”), from Latin.
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