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Urania   Listen
noun
Urania  n.  
1.
(Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.





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"Urania" Quotes from Famous Books



... Directly that you mentioned 'Urania,' I began to fancy I remembered her too. {100} And we are both right; I wrote to a London friend to look out for the Engraving: and I post it to you along with this Letter. If it do not reach you in some three weeks, let me know, and ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) • Edward FitzGerald
... "Why Urania of all others?" cried Titianus angrily. She, above all, ought not to be missing from the hall of audience of Caesar the pontiff of heaven! What ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


Words linked to "Urania" :   Roman deity, muse


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