URANUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uranus mean? 

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

1. (Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology

2. a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites

  Familiarity information: URANUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URANUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ouranos; Uranus

Instance hypernyms:

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781

Instance hypernyms:

gas giant; Jovian planet (any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter))

outer planet ((astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto))

superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)

Holonyms ("Uranus" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)

 Context examples 

Uranus is in your fourth house of home, so the job might require you to move quite suddenly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Image scale at Uranus is approximately 16,000 miles (25,700 kilometers) per pixel.

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then.

(Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons, NASA)

Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune.

(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)

It is a mystery how bands like these are confined to such narrow widths, because Uranus and Neptune have very broad westward-blowing wind jets.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

It is located roughly three billion kilometres from the central star, roughly equivalent to the distance between Uranus and the Sun.

(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century astronomers called them the name because through small telescopes they resembled the disks of the distant planets Uranus and Neptune.

(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)

Even after decades of observations and a visit by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, Uranus held on to one critical secret — the composition of its clouds.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

However, if rings are temporary, perhaps we just missed out on seeing giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which have only thin ringlets today!

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

The detected amounts of hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur are similar to those found in the deep atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)