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Pluto   /plˈutoʊ/   Listen
Pluto

noun
1.
A cartoon character created by Walt Disney.
2.
(Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone.  Synonyms: Aides, Aidoneus, Hades.
3.
A small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets.






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"Pluto" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pluto is the matter with you all?" cried the amazed senator, whose night of potations had left him in no mood for patience. "Why do you stand moping there? Stephanos, Vacculus—is anything amiss? Here, Promus, you are the head of my household. What is it, ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Prince [of Wales], and received him kindly, but the Queen was present. Iron Pluto (as Burke called the Chancellor) wept again when with the King; but what is much more remarkable, his Majesty has not asked for Pitt, and did abuse him constantly during his frenzy. The Chancellor certainly did ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... King Attalus was carried to Rome, and installed in the city by all the matrons, preceded by Scipio the Younger. The inhabitants of the peninsula adored also Cybele, Proserpine, and Jupiter, who, according to a fabulous tradition, had given the town of Cyzicus to the wife of Pluto, as dower. Emperor Hadrian embellished this town with the largest and the finest of the temples of paganism. The columns of this edifice, all of one piece, were four ells (fifteen and one-half feet) in circumference and fifty ells (one hundred ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... For Lucifer the proper cheer; By which her husband came to know— For he had heard of those three ladies— Himself a citizen of Hades. 'What may your office be?' The phantom question'd he. 'I'm server up of Pluto's meat, And bring his guests the same to eat.' 'Well,' says the sot, not taking time to think, 'And don't you bring us anything ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine

... of the earth, or to the Plutonic theory in geology of the formation of certain rocks by fire: from "Pluto"—in classic mythology, the god of the ...
— New Word-Analysis - Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words • William Swinton


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