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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Greek Mythology The goddess of love and beauty. Also called Cytherea.

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  1. n. The goddess of beauty and love,Webster's College Dictionary, Random House, 2001 born when Cronus castrated Uranus and threw his genitalia into the sea.Oxford Dictionary of World Mythology, Arthur Cotterell, Oxford University Press, 1986

Etymologies

  1. Greek Aphrodītē, of Phoenician origin; see ʿṯtr in Semitic roots.

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