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Urania

Urania Meaning & Definition
Urania Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Urania?

[n] goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
[n] (Greek mythology) the Muse of astronomy

Synonyms | Synonyms for Urania: Venus

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See Also | Muse | Roman deity

Urania In Webster's Dictionary

\U*ra"ni*a\, n. [L., from Gr. ?, i. e., the Heavenly, fr. ? heavenly, fr. ? heaven.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

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