GANYMEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ganymede mean? 

• GANYMEDE (noun)
  The noun GANYMEDE has 2 senses:

1. (Greek mythology) a Trojan boy who was so beautiful that Zeus carried him away to serve as cupbearer to the gods

2. the largest of Jupiter's satellites

  Familiarity information: GANYMEDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GANYMEDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) a Trojan boy who was so beautiful that Zeus carried him away to serve as cupbearer to the gods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The largest of Jupiter's satellites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

Galilean; Galilean satellite (one of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo)

 Context examples 

For every time Ganymede orbits Jupiter, Europa orbits twice and Io makes four trips around the planet.

(Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1’s Least Understood Planet, NASA)

However, unlike our planet, the particles causing Ganymede’s auroras come from the plasma surrounding Jupiter, not the solar wind.

(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)

Previous models of Ganymede's oceans assumed that salt didn't change the properties of liquid very much with pressure.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.

(Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon, NASA)

These features have similar appearances to ejected material from craters in the icy regions of Mars and on Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

(Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content, NASA)

The color image shows atmospheric features on Jupiter, including the famous Great Red Spot, and three of the massive planet's four largest moons — Io, Europa and Ganymede, from left to right in the image.

(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)

Ganymede has auroras, or northern and southern lights, just like Earth does.

(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)

Ganymede is one of five moons in our solar system thought to support vast oceans beneath icy crusts.

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

By watching the rocking motion of the two aurorae, scientists were able to determine that a large amount of saltwater exists beneath Ganymede’s crust affecting its magnetic field.

(Hubble Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Jupiter's Largest Moon, NASA)

To understand the concept of resonance, consider Jupiter's moons Io, Europa and Ganymede, which is the farthest out of the three.

(Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1’s Least Understood Planet, NASA)