Venus

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

   The 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.
3. 3

   A female given name.

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   1. 4

      Sexual activity or intercourse

      Sexual 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.
   2. 5

      Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).

   3. 6

      Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a…

      Any 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.
   4. 7

      Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.

      • 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 Eastern Europe.
   5. 8

      Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.

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