APOLLO

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• APOLLO (noun)
  The noun APOLLO has 1 sense:

1. (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis

  Familiarity information: APOLLO used as a noun is very rare.

• APOLLO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Apollo; Phoebus; Phoebus Apollo

Instance hypernyms:

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Instance hyponyms:

Pythius (epithet for Apollo; from the dragon Python which he killed)

 Context examples 

The Martian Sol 128 event is exciting because its size and longer duration fit the profile of moonquakes detected on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

He thought himself her idol, ugly as he was: he believed, as he said, that she preferred his "taille d'athlete" to the elegance of the Apollo Belvidere.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One of the largest, a well-studied area called Ina, was imaged from lunar orbit by Apollo 15 astronauts.

(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)

Ten years later, he led the Soviet part of the Apollo–Soyuz mission symbolizing that the Space Race was over.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

The team’s calculations revealed that this static charge can reach ten thousand volts in some materials, like the Teflon suits used in the Apollo lunar missions.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

Good evening, Apollo! she answered, smiling back at him, for he too looked unusually debonair, and the thought of entering the ballroom on the arm of such a personable man caused Amy to pity the four plain Misses Davis from the bottom of her heart.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

NASA's Apollo astronauts installed five seismometers that measured thousands of quakes while operating on the Moon between 1969 and 1977, revealing seismic activity on the Moon.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

Your words have delineated very prettily a graceful Apollo: he is present to your imagination,—tall, fair, blue- eyed, and with a Grecian profile.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Based on a technique that links such crater measurements to the ages of Apollo and Luna samples, three of the irregular mare patches are thought to be less than 100 million years old, and perhaps less than 50 million years old in the case of Ina.

(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)