urania : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: urania	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for urania
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Urania n (Greek mythology) the Muse of astronomy goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite Synonym(s): Venus, Urania
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Urania \Ura"nia\, n. [L., from Gr. [?], i. e., the Heavenly, fr. [?] heavenly, fr. [?] heaven.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Urania, LA (town, FIPS 77490) Location: 31.86388 N, 92.29052 W Population (1990): 782 (313 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)