NINA

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

1. the Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea

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

• NINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)

 Context examples 

The only ways on Earth that we know how to make these manganese materials involve atmospheric oxygen or microbes, said Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)

The month of December: Despite the cooling influence of a weak La Nina in the latter part of the year, December ended up as the fourth warmest December on record for the globe, with an average temperature 1.44 degrees F above the 20th century average.

(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)