Ceres
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Classical Mythology. a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
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Astronomy. one of the brightest and by far the largest asteroid in our solar system, discovered in 1801 and located in the asteroid belt: the first asteroid to be discovered, Ceres is also classified as a dwarf planet.
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a town in central California.
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The closest dwarf planet to the Sun , with an orbit in the asteroid belt. Ceres was the first object in the asteroid belt to be discovered (1801). Initially considered a planet, it was reclassified as an asteroid in the mid-1800s and as a dwarf planet in 2006. It has a diameter of about 960 km (595 mi).
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See more at dwarf planet
Etymology
Origin of Ceres
First recorded in 1570–80; from Latin Cerēs, the goddess of grain and mother of Persephone; as a common noun, “wheat, corn; bread, food”
Example Sentences
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Ceres has a market cap of roughly $2 billion, a fraction of Bloom’s.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Mr. Rothstein is chief program officer of Ceres.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
That is why astrobiologists are increasingly turning their eyes toward icy bodies like the Jovian moons of Europa and Ganymede, Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus, Uranus' moon Miranda and the dwarf planet Ceres.
From Salon • Jan. 4, 2025
Other providers of AI-powered vineyard monitoring equipment include US tech giant Cisco, and smaller firms Ceres Imaging and Bloomfield AI.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024
Leila, daughter of Ceres, wasn’t known for her aggressiveness.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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