Cytherea

[ sith-uh-ree-uh ]

noun

1. Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.

Cytherea

/ ˌsɪθəˈriːə /

noun

1. See Aphrodite
   another name for Aphrodite

Derived Forms

• ˌCytherˈean, adjective

Example Sentences

This shell is very like Cytherea loeta, but differs from it in its markings, as well as its outline, which is more orbicular.

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Suppose you are married to Cytherea herself, and the next week attacked with a rheumatic fever.

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For there are certain spots even in this grand solitude consecrated to Cytherea and Bacchus, as he is now worshipped in champagne.

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Occasionally Venus is called Cytherea, from the island near which Greek myth represented her as having arisen from the sea.

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Peyton had looked with a stolid indifference at the dangerously fascinating, the incomprehensible, smile of Cytherea.

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