Venus

Ve·nus  (vns)

n.

1. Roman Mythology The goddess of love and beauty.

2. The second planet from the sun, having an average radius of 6,052 kilometers (3,761 miles), a mass 0.815 times that of Earth, and a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 224.7 days at a mean distance of approximately 108.2 million kilometers (67.2 million miles).

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[Middle English, from Old English, from Latin, love, Venus; see wen-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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Venus

Noun

1. the Roman goddess of love

2. the planet second nearest to the sun

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Venus  (vns)

The second planet from the Sun and the fourth smallest, with a diameter about 400 miles less than that of Earth. Venus is a terrestrial or inner planet and at inferior conjunction comes nearer to Earth than any other planet; depending on its phase, it is also the brightest object in the night sky aside from Earth's moon. Because Venus is an inferior planet (located between Earth and the Sun), it is only visible relatively near the horizon in the first few hours before sunrise or after sunset. It has a dense atmosphere consisting primarily of carbon dioxide, which, together with its proximity to the Sun, creates an intense greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in the solar system with an average surface temperature of 453°C (847°F). Venus is completely shrouded by a thick layer of clouds made up mainly of droplets of sulfuric acid with other clouds of vaporous and particulate sulfur dioxide below it. Radar mapping of the Venutian surface shows rolling hills, plains, and numerous volcanoes as well as large impact craters and extensive lava flows. See Table at solar system.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Venus - 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'; "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer" solar system - the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
	2.	Venus - goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite Urania
	3.	Venus - type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells genus Venus mollusk genus - a genus of mollusks family Veneridae, Veneridae - hard-shell clams Mercenaria mercenaria, hard clam, Venus mercenaria, hard-shell clam, quahaug, quahog, round clam - an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians

Translations

Venus [ˈviːnəs] n (ASTRO) → Venus m

Venus [ˈviːnəs] n (= planet) → Vénus f

Venus [ˈviːnəs] n → Venus f

Venus [ˈviːnəs] n (planet) → Venere m