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  Apollo

  noun

  the ancient Greek and Roman god of light, healing, music, poetry, prophecy, and manly beauty; the son of Leto and brother of Artemis.
• apollo
  apollo

  noun

  a strikingly handsome youth

Apollo

American  

[uh-pol-oh] / əˈpɒl oʊ /

noun

• Apollos
  plural

1. the ancient Greek and Roman god of light, healing, music, poetry, prophecy, and manly beauty; the son of Leto and brother of Artemis.

2. a very handsome young man.

3. Aerospace. one of a series of U.S. spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to the moon and back.

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Apollo ¹ British  

/ əˈpɒləʊ /

noun

1. any of a series of manned US spacecraft designed to explore the moon and surrounding space. Apollo 11 made the first moon landing in July 1969

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Apollo ² British  

/ əˈpɒləʊ /

noun

1. classical myth the god of light, poetry, music, healing, and prophecy: son of Zeus and Leto

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apollo ³ British  

/ əˈpɒləʊ /

noun

1. a strikingly handsome youth

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apollo ⁴ British  

/ əˈpɒləʊ /

noun

1. a handsome Eurasian mountain butterfly, Parnassius apollo, with palish wings and prominent red ocelli

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Apollo Cultural  

1. The Greek and Roman god of poetry, prophecy, medicine, and light. Apollo represents all aspects of civilization and order. He was worshiped at the Delphic oracle, where a priestess gave forth his predictions. Zeus was his father, and Artemis was his sister. He is sometimes identified with Hyperion, the Titan he succeeded.

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The sun was sometimes described as Apollo's chariot, riding across the sky.

As a representative of controlled and ordered nature, Apollo is often contrasted with Dionysus, the god who represents wild, creative energies.

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• Apollos
  plural

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McHarg currently serves as Skyward’s deputy CFO and as the finance chief at the company’s Apollo Group unit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Plus: Asset manager Apollo breached; crash cart for hospital cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Four days after the Taalas announcement, Nvidia signed preliminary agreements with Apollo, Blackstone, Brookfield, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms intended to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

France is a key market for the low-cost airline, which was recently taken over in a $7.7 billion deal by US private equity firm Apollo.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

We dashed toward a display featuring a pair of Neil Armstrong’s gloves worn during his Apollo 11 mission.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Changed "apollo" to "Apollo" on page 361 in the index entry for Parnassius.

From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff

What is Paul? what thing is apollo? but ministers by whom ye believed even as the lord gave every man grace.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

Billy Pirie: Scored 106 goals in 138 games for Dundee as well as playing for the likes of Arbroath, Aberdeen and the New York Apollos.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

“I’d like to talk to Charlie about that,” said Joseph P. Allen, a physicist-astronaut who served at Mission Control during Apollos 15 and 17 and made two space shuttle flights himself.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022

Luis Perez, of the Birmingham Iron, signed with the Philadelphia Eagles and Garrett Gilbert, of the Orlando Apollos, signed with the Browns.

From Fox News ● Apr. 9, 2019

The AAF even has the Head Ball Coach himself, Steve Spurrier, who is coaching the Apollos.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2019

By that I mean that Apollos 9 and 10 must make near-perfect flights before us.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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