venusian
/vəˈnuʒən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An inhabitant of the planet Venus.
adj
Of or relating to inhabitants of Venus.
adj
Pertaining to the Roman goddess Venus.
name
A hypothetical language spoken on Venus.
Example Sentences
- "The Venusians, unlike other planetary races, were almost like Earthpeople. There was only one notable difference—they had feathers on their heads instead of hair."
- "the Venusian landscape"
- "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."
- "Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides."
- "a Venusian invasion"
- "The farms emulate Venus's atmosphere, so as the generations of Taumoeba go by, they'll get even better at Venusian life."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin Venusbor. Middle English Venus English Venus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Venusian From Venus + -ian.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /vəˈnuʒən/
- British English: /vɪˈnjuː.ziən/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Astronomy.