Venus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VENUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) one of a genus of lamellibranch molluscs
• a goddess, worshipped as the goddess of love in classical Rome though apparently a spirit of kitchen gardens in earlier times.
• a beautiful woman.
• the second planet from the sun in the solar system, the brightest celestial object after the sun and moon and frequently appearing in the twilight sky as the evening or morning star.
• a burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with clearly defined growth lines on the shell.
• type of marine bivalve mollusc
• The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
• One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
• The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
• Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
• the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star\' or an `evening star\'
• goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
• type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the Roman goddess of love and beauty — compare aphrodite

Words related to VENUS

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Words that contain VENUS

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How to use VENUS in a sentence

• The Virgin Mother and Cecilia succeeded to Venus and Muses.
• She rung the bell and requested Venus to bring her shawl.
• On my return, I passed a Mooress, or rather a Mauritanian Venus, who was so stout that she had fallen down, and could not get up.
• At weddings it was the custom to sing hymns to Venus.
• Then one night some one rode in from near Point Venus and reported to the Governor that two British frigates had been sighted.
• The method I have described for the observation of Mercury will prove very useful in the search for Venus when the sun is above the horizon or but just set.
• But the observer must not expect to see much during his observation of Venus.
• The temple of Jupiter, of Venus, and another temple, the Tribunal, and the Hall of Public Justice, with their forest of lofty columns, surround the Forum.
• Utterly vain were his agonizing prayers to Venus to release him.
• The inhabitants cried that Venus had come to revel with Bacchus.
• The Venus space station handled ninety per cent of the traffic into and out of Venusport.
• All around them huge screens displayed various views of the surface of Venus as it slowly revolved beneath the station.
• On the public seal of the Locrians, Ozoles was Hesperus, or the planet Venus.
• Apollo, Mars, Venus, Diana, and Jove, so far as his wife will let him, are on the Trojan side.
• Among these are the tiresome, formal landscape, the wooden little dog petted by Venus, and perhaps some other passages.
• The worship of Mars by the Venus of the white cap is one of the few vital religions left to this devoutless age.
• The rest of his body was smooth and beautiful, and such as Venus could not have repented of giving birth to.
• Mercury and Venus cannot be in opposition, but are in inferior or superior conjunction according as they are nearer or further than the sun.
• The one is, that the women of Lemnos being punished by Venus with an ill savor, and therefore neglected by their husbands, conspired against them and slew them.
• The Earth and Mars Intercommunication Company, Limited, has been merged into the London, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and North Saturn Aerial Railway Company.

Similar words containing VENU without suffix s

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