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ceres is a noun meaning "(Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter
Roman mythology
the largest asteroid and the first discovered
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ceres come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.