Cytherean

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[sith-uh-ree-uhn] / ˌsɪθ əˈri ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Cytherea.

2. Astronomy. of or relating to the planet Venus.

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Etymology

Origin of Cytherean

< Latin Cytherē(a) (< Greek Kythéreia Cytherea ( def. ) ) + -an

Example Sentences

The Cytherean babes had set their torches to that flotilla, and it had blazed like match-wood.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

So spake the Cytherean one and sought her son's embrace, And hung the beaming arms upon an oak that stood in face.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

The rich mantle of Venetian fashion, the jewels, the coiffure, all show that an idealised portrait of some lovely Cytherean of Venice, and no true mythological piece, has been intended.

From The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude

Venus was certainly not visible at the Swampville table-d’hôte: for the presiding divinity was a perfect Hecate; and her attendant damsels could have found no place in the train of the Cytherean goddess.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

Ah how often she swore by the Cytherean that she would be here at evenfall; but she recks not of either men or gods.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)