Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The chief Babylonian and Assyrian goddess, associated with love, fertility, and war, being the counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.
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goddess offertility ,love ,sex andwar . In theBabylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus.Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the SumerianInanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddessAstarte .
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- noun Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ishtar is a great movie, a real gem, and more and more people are coming to realize this.
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Ea tries to rescue Ishtar from the underworld by sending a servant and is partially successful (Dalley 1989: 158).
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Ea tries to rescue Ishtar from the underworld by sending a servant and is partially successful (Dalley 1989: 158).
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Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible Howard Books 2007
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Her name Ishtar is that by which she was known in Assyria; and the same term prevailed with slight modifications among the Semitic races generally.
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Every year, the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox became known as Ishtar's Sunday, and was celebrated by rabbits and eggs, and a pig must be eaten that day.
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While he's "particularly drawn to the films he made in the late 60s and 70s," and you'll see that in his Warren Beatty top 5, you'll find plenty leaving comments arguing that Ishtar is a "great movie," even "the most misjudged movie of all time.
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