ALL meanings of venus
Ve·nus
V v - noun venus astronomy: planet 1
- noun venus mythology: goddess of love 1
- noun plural venus an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty. 1
- noun plural venus an exceptionally beautiful woman. 1
- noun plural venus (sometimes lowercase) Archaeology. a statuette of a female figure, usually carved of ivory and typically having exaggerated breasts, belly, or buttocks, often found in Upper Paleolithic cultures from Siberia to France. 1
- noun plural venus Astronomy. the planet second in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7521 miles (12,104 km), a mean distance from the sun of 67.2 million miles (108.2 million km), a period of revolution of 224.68 days, and no moons. It is the most brilliant planet in the solar system. 1
- noun plural venus Chemistry Obsolete. copper1 (def 1). 1
- noun venus Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae. 0
- noun venus the Roman goddess of love 0
- noun venus one of the inferior planets and the second nearest to the sun, visible as a bright morning or evening star. Its surface is extremely hot (over 400°C) and is completely shrouded by dense cloud. The atmosphere is principally carbon dioxide. Mean distance from sun: 108 million km; period of revolution around sun: 225 days; period of axial rotation: 244.3 days (retrograde motion); diameter and mass: 96.5 and 81.5 per cent that of earth respectively 0
- noun venus the goddess of love and beauty: identified with the Greek Aphrodite 0
- noun venus a statue or image of Venus 0
- noun venus a very beautiful woman 0
- noun venus the brightest, sixth-largest planet in the solar system and the second in distance from the sun, with a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide and a very high surface temperature: diameter, c. 12,100 km (c. 7,520 mi); period of revolution, c. 224.7 earth days; period of rotation (retrograde), 243.01 earth days; symbol, ♀ 0