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Uranus

noun

(Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology. Synonym: Ouranos.

A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites.

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"Uranus" Quotes from Famous Books

... utterly unversed in the heavenly politics as not to know that this person described herself fully as having been born four years previous to the date I had given him, in the year of the eclipse, which was moreover a comet-year and one in which Uranus usurped the throne of reigning planets, and breaking all bounds, shadowed that fateful season? That Aquarius, drawn by him, had imposed himself, too, and affected the very Moon in her courses? Indeed she would be an unbelievable person, that one! But assuredly she was born in the ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

Words linked to "Uranus" : Ouranos, solar system, Greek deity, Jovian planet, superior planet, gas giant, outer planet, Greek mythology