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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Taurus and Pisces.
  • noun The first sign of the zodiac in astrology.
  • noun One who is born under this sign.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the zodiacal constellations.
  • noun The first sign of the zodiac (marked ♈), which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, March 21st, and leaves April 20th.
  • noun In zoology, a genus of mammals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.
  • proper noun A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.
  • proper noun (Rom. Antiq.) A battering-ram.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun astronomy : A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a ram.
  • proper noun astrology : The zodiac sign for the ram, ruled by Mars and covering March 21 - April 20 (tropical astrology) or April 15 - May 15 (sidereal astrology).
  • noun Someone with an Aries star sign.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19
  • noun (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries
  • noun a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Pisces and Taurus

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, zodiacal sign Aries, from Latin ariēs, ram, zodiacal sign Aries.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin aries ("ram").

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