urania

[yoo-rey-nee-uh, -reyn-yuh]

noun Chemistry.

uranium dioxide.

Origin of urania

urani(um) + -a⁴

Urania

[yoo-rey-nee-uh, -reyn-yuh]

noun

Classical Mythology. the Muse of astronomy.

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Historical Examples of urania

Urania, the Muse who loved the heavens, believed that he was from some star world.
Classic Myths
Mary Catherine Judd
Hippocrates is a dream; Urania is a dream; Hermes, a thought.
Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo
It is of truth that I make much of these thing to please Urania.
Stories in Light and Shadow
Bret Harte
For the gold he made nothing, even as my leetle wife Urania.
Stories in Light and Shadow
Bret Harte
The Urania sailed for London with her passenger the 8th December, 1824.
A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres
George Thomas Love

British Dictionary definitions for urania

Urania

noun Greek myth

the Muse of astronomy
another name of Aphrodite

Word Origin for Urania

C17: from Latin, from Greek Ourania, from ouranios heavenly, from ouranos heaven

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