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say it: VEE-nuhs
venus is a noun meaning "the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'". It is pronounced /ˈvinəs/ — VEE-nuhs. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'
“before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer”
goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
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 venus 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.