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Maia

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Mai·a  (m, m)
n.
1. Greek Mythology A goddess, the eldest of the Pleiades.
2. The brightest star in the Pleiades.
[Latin Mia, from Greek Maia, from maia, good mother, nurse; see m-2 in Indo-European roots.]
Maia [ˈmaɪə]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the eldest of the seven Pleiades, mother by Zeus of Hermes
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Noun1.MaiaMaia - type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
genus Maia, genus Maja, Maja
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
family Majidae, Majidae - spider crabs
European spider crab, Maja squinado, king crab - a large spider crab of Europe


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whose stars are these: -- `Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
And as that abstract condition of Maia, to the kind and quantity of concrete literary production we hold to have been originally possible for him; so was the religion he actually attained, to what might have been the development of his profoundly religious spirit, had he been able to see that the old-fashioned Christianity is itself but the proper historic development of the true "essence" of the New Testament.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
He made seven portions; one of these he set apart for Mercury the son of Maia and the nymphs, praying to them as he did so; the others he dealt out to the men man by man.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
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