venus
/ˈvinəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The second planet in the Solar system.
name
A female given name.
noun
Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The robot craft, the fifth from the Soviet Union to land on Venus, is a module detached from Venera 13. It plunged through the dense, baking-hot carbon dioxide atmosphere and touched down in the foothills of a mountainous region known as Phoebe, just south of the Venusian equator and also below the active volcanic region of Beta. An identical lander, from Venera 14, is expected to reach Venus Friday and probably put down on the plains east of the Phoebe landing site."
- "Of all the classic Venuses known to us in modern times, this Venus of Milo is certainly the most popular."
- "To call either or both of them by the name of Venus seems to me too positive; for although the theory of love which they embody was unquestionably associated with the two Venuses in Plato, ‘one draped, the other nude’, it is important to observe that, in contradistinction to Botticelli and Mantegna, Titian endowed the figures with attributes and characters which transcend the mythological idiom."
- "Now from Ficino’s In Platonis Convivium we learn that for the Neoplatonic philosopher there are two Veneres, not one. The first of these ‘twin Veneres’ is the Venus coelestis, born of Coelus alone, without a mother—since mater interpreted philosophically implies materia, and she is altogether immaterial."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin Venusbor. Middle English Venus English Venus Inherited from Middle English Venus, borrowed from Latin Venus.
Word Breakdown
- Root: Venus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈvinəs/
- British English: /ˈviːnəs/