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Aphrodite
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noun
(1)
Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus
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Etymology
From the +
-ite
(Greek ending denoting a person associated with a place, etc.)
Proper noun
The
goddess
of
beauty
and
love
, born when
Cronus
castrated
Uranus
and threw his genitalia into the sea.
See also
Acidalia
Anadyomene
Cytherea
Despina
Kypris
Venus
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