urania
noun
Showing results for urania.
Search instead for
ubrania.
urania
1 American
[yoo-rey-nee-uh, -reyn-yuh]
/ jʊˈreɪ ni ə, -ˈreɪn jə /
noun
Chemistry.
Urania
2
American
[yoo-rey-nee-uh, -reyn-yuh]
/ jʊˈreɪ ni ə, -ˈreɪn jə /
noun
Urania
British
/ jʊˈreɪnɪə /
noun
-
the Muse of astronomy
-
another name of Aphrodite
Etymology
Origin of urania
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Differs from P. pura in persistently conical pileus. urania, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
This particular Urania, for example, was built in Dresden, and was sold at a shop on Ferdinandstraße in central Hamburg in 1939.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
Her sister, Urania Papaggeli, 20, said that Anastasia had gone to the city of Patras, near Athens, for the carnival while dressed as an elf.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
The letter caused something of an embarrassment for Charles Dickens who was the patron of Urania Cottage, a home for fallen women.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019
The company said the Urania sawmill will use up to 850,000 tons of wood annually to produce about 200 million board feet of lumber a year.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2018
The figures on the cornice symbolize the mathematical sciences, with Urania, the muse of astronomy, in the centre.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
