Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Greek Mythology The goddess of the moon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Greek myth, the goddess of the moon, called in Latin Luna. she is the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios (the sun) and Eos (the dawn), but is also a double of Artemis (Diana). She is also called
Phæbe . - n. [NL. (Lacépède, 1803).] In ichthyology, a genus of carangoid fishes; the moonfishes, whose soft dorsal and anal fins have the anterior rays much produced in the adult. S. vomer is known as the lookdown and horsehead. See cut under horsehead.
Wiktionary
- n. Greek mythology The goddess of the Moon; daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Eos, mother of the Menae, (the goddesses of the lunar months within a olympiad). Her Roman counterpart is Luna.
- n. rare A female given name.
- n. poetic the moon
WordNet 3.0
- n. a genus of Carangidae
- n. (Greek mythology) goddess of the Moon in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Luna
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Keeping a spoiled movie princess under wraps may be more than she can handleeven with the help of Tess's icily unflappable friend Whitneysince Selene is not as naive as everyone seems to think, and far more devious than she initially appears to be.”
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“But I will say that The Heathen aka Selene The Cat just stole my bag of crackers from my lap!”
““The moon was also called Selene by the Greeks Baltar,””
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“The children would call Selene when they wanted her, but would fly to Arsinoe as soon as they saw her.”
“Ray: Yah, but probably most well known as Selene from 28 Days Later”
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LIT - Greco-Latin gods and heroes
Ganymede, Io, Olympia, Callisto, Hera, Kronos, Despoina, Hyades, Dyaus, Rhadamanthus, Semele, Leto and 198 more...
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lunacy
moon-related
moon dog, transient lunar p..., selenography, moonbow, paraselene, maria, parantiselene, moon, luna, trapper's moon, harvest moon, hunter's moon and 96 more...
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Percy Jackson
Daedalus, Icarus, Titan, Hyperion, Gaia, Uranus, Helios, Selene, Eos, Cronus, Ares, Eris and 20 more...
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Monovocalic Proper
Capitalized words with only one of the vowels, with that vowel used at least three times. See also Monovocalics.
Pilgrimism, Photoshop, Taklamakan, Derek Jeter, Ruzuzu, Sagarmatha, Octomom, Sitsiritsit, Dahaka, Dodongo, Attacapa, Atalanta and 449 more...
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