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

  • noun The ancient Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A principal Egyptian god, personifying the power of good and the sunlight, united in history and in worship in a sacred triad with Isis as his wife and Horus as their child.
  • noun [NL.] In zoology, a genus of hymenopterous insects.

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

  • proper noun (Myth.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.

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  • proper noun The Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld.

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

  • noun Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus

Etymologies

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

[Latin Osīris, from Greek, from Egyptian wsjr, perhaps originally js-jrt, seat of the eye (of the sun) : js-, akin to jst, seat + jrt, eye.]

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From Ancient Greek Ὄσιρις (Osiris).

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