Venus
Sexual activity or intercourseSexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.
» Venus is way too hot to explore.
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4 senses(poetic, uncountable)Sexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.
(countable)Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.
(broadly, countable)Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.
(obsolete, uncountable)Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).
- type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
- the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early ‘morning star’ or an ‘evening star’
- goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
Examples
125 sentencesVenus is way too hot to explore.
Venus is a planet.
ruВенера — планета. — odexed
deDie Venus ist ein Planet. — Esperantostern
Is it possible to see Venus tonight?
ruМожно ли сегодня ночью увидеть Венеру? — drnm2
Venus' air pressure is very high.
Venus' atmospheric pressure is very high.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English Venus, borrowed from Latin Venus.Inherited from Middle English Venus, borrowed from Latin Venus.
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Forms
plural: Venuses / VeneresSynonyms
2 synonyms- type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells:genus Venus
- goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite:Urania
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.