Etymology

Proper noun

1. A giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos, and killed by Artemis.
2. A constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
3. of modern usage.
   • 1980 Wright Morris, Plains Song, for Female Voices, Harper&Row, ISBN 0060130474, page 113:

     In Madge's judgment, her Uncle Orion had suffered most of his life from the name he'd been given, requiring that people ask him to repeat it and boys his own age make fun of it.

Proper noun

1. Orion.
2. The constellation Orion.

Proper noun

1. Orion.
2. The constellation Orion.